# Trying to install curb on OS X Leopard Intel

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 2, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-install-curb-on-os-x-leopard-intel/159186 "2009-02-02T02:45:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Francis\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@Francis\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Francis_H)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-install-curb-on-os-x-leopard-intel/159186/1 "2009-02-02T02:45:58Z")

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Anybody ever see this problem? I’ve tried this using taf2’s fork of  
curb ([GitHub - taf2/curb: Ruby bindings for libcurl](http://github.com/taf2/curb/tree/master)) but am having similar  
problems with the gem from RubyForge. Any guesses at all would be  
appreciated …

Francis

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[curb (master)]$ sudo rake install EXTCONF\_OPTS=‘–with-curl-dir=/usr/  
local/lib --prefix=/usr/local’  
(in /Users/francis/Tech/ruby/vendor/curb)  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/  
gempackagetask.rb:13:Warning: Gem::manage\_gems is deprecated and will  
be removed on or after March 2009.  
/usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb --with-curl-dir=/usr/local/lib –  
prefix=/usr/local  
checking for curl-config… yes  
checking for curlinfo\_redirect\_time… yes  
checking for curlinfo\_response\_code… yes  
checking for curlinfo\_filetime… yes  
checking for curlinfo\_redirect\_count… yes  
checking for curlinfo\_os\_errno… yes  
checking for curlinfo\_num\_connects… yes  
checking for curlinfo\_ftp\_entry\_path… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_ssl… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_libz… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_ntlm… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_gssnegotiate… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_debug… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_asynchdns… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_spnego… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_largefile… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_idn… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_sspi… yes  
checking for curl\_version\_conv… yes  
checking for curlproxy\_http… yes  
checking for curlproxy\_socks4… yes  
checking for curlproxy\_socks5… yes  
checking for curlauth\_basic… yes  
checking for curlauth\_digest… yes  
checking for curlauth\_gssnegotiate… yes  
checking for curlauth\_ntlm… yes  
checking for curlauth\_anysafe… yes  
checking for curlauth\_any… yes  
checking for curle\_tftp\_notfound… yes  
checking for curle\_tftp\_perm… yes  
checking for curle\_tftp\_diskfull… yes  
checking for curle\_tftp\_illegal… yes  
checking for curle\_tftp\_unknownid… yes  
checking for curle\_tftp\_exists… yes  
checking for curle\_tftp\_nosuchuser… yes  
creating curb\_config.h  
creating Makefile  
gcc -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I/usr/local/  
lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I. -DRUBY\_EXTCONF\_H="curb\_config.h  
" -I/usr/local/lib/include -fno-common -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common -I/  
usr/local/include -Wall -c curb.c  
gcc -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I/usr/local/  
lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I. -DRUBY\_EXTCONF\_H="curb\_config.h  
" -I/usr/local/lib/include -fno-common -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common -I/  
usr/local/include -Wall -c curb\_easy.c  
gcc -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I/usr/local/  
lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I. -DRUBY\_EXTCONF\_H="curb\_config.h  
" -I/usr/local/lib/include -fno-common -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common -I/  
usr/local/include -Wall -c curb\_errors.c  
gcc -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I/usr/local/  
lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I. -DRUBY\_EXTCONF\_H="curb\_config.h  
" -I/usr/local/lib/include -fno-common -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common -I/  
usr/local/include -Wall -c curb\_multi.c  
gcc -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I/usr/local/  
lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0 -I. -DRUBY\_EXTCONF\_H="curb\_config.h  
" -I/usr/local/lib/include -fno-common -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common -I/  
usr/local/include -Wall -c curb\_postfield.c  
cc -dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress -flat\_namespace -L"/usr/local/  
lib" -L"/usr/local/lib/lib" -o curb\_core.bundle curb.o curb\_easy.o  
curb\_errors.o curb\_multi.o curb\_postfield.o -lpthread -ldl -lobjc -  
L/usr/local/lib -lcurl -lssl -lcrypto -lldap -lz  
/Users/francis/Tech/ruby/vendor/curb/ext/curb\_core.bundle: Failed to  
load /Users/francis/Tech/ruby/vendor/curb/ext/curb\_core.bundle  
(LoadError)  
from /Users/francis/Tech/ruby/vendor/curb/ext/curb.rb:5  
from ./tests/helper.rb:12:in `require' from ./tests/helper.rb:12 from ./tests/tc_curl_download.rb:1:in `require’  
from ./tests/tc\_curl\_download.rb:1  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/  
rake\_test\_loader.rb:5:in `load' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/ rake_test_loader.rb:5 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/ rake_test_loader.rb:5:in `each’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/  
rake\_test\_loader.rb:5  
rake aborted!  
Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib "/usr/local/  
lib/…]

(See full trace by running task with --trace)
