Problems installing postgres and ruby-postgres after Leopard upgrade

Unwinding macports to use Apple’s ruby stack I found that
sudo port install postgresql82 postgresql82-server
fails. Able to install from source with the same configuration settings. Missing optional stuff like tsearch2 though.

More of a concern is the problems installing
sudo gem install ruby-postgres. The first problem is that configure doesn’t find certain functions due to problems linking to the ppc symbols. The ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" doesn’t solve this – still builds for ppc as well. Can override #defines in the postgres.c file and override the contents of the Makefile to build successfully though.

Update ARCHFLAGS does work in compiling ruby-postgres, I just had to be more sophisticated about passing it through sudo.

Hello world!

…is this thing on?? testing 1-2-3… ok, we’re go.