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Using sudo to Install the Postgres Gem on Leopard

Been getting this error with the latest postgres gem?

% sudo gem install postgres
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)
   ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

ruby extconf.rb install postgres
checking for main() in -lpq... yes
checking for libpq-fe.h... yes
checking for libpq/libpq-fs.h... yes
checking for PQsetClientEncoding()... no
checking for pg_encoding_to_char()... no
checking for PQfreemem()... no
checking for PQserverVersion()... no
checking for PQescapeString()... no
creating Makefile

I have, too. I’ve known about the fix for a while, thanks to a post from maintainer Jeff Davis from last month. But I was unable to get it to work. But then I found this gem of a comment (pun not intended) from Gluttonous:

FYI, this does NOT work with sudo since sudo strips the env var out. You must ‘sudo -s’ or ‘sudo su’ and run the command straight up.

D’oh! I’ve been doing this all this time:

ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386' sudo gem install postgres

And getting the same failures. But this works beautifully:

sudo env ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386' gem install postgres

And away we go!

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