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If you’ve installed a gem bundle on OS X Lion the past few weeks then you may have seen the dreaded “[BUG] Segmentation fault” error, where Ruby sees to crash in the connect C function in http.rb. Upgrading to the latest Ruby 1.9.3 version (p194) doesn’t seem to help. Luckily someone has found a solution for this problem.

It turns out the segmentation fault is caused by an incompatibility between MacPort’s OpenSSL and RVM. MacPorts installs everything to /opt/local but RVM does not look for OpenSSL in /opt/local. We solved the problem by reinstalling Ruby 1.9.3 with the MacPorts OpenSSL, as follows.

First edit $HOME/.rvmrc and add:

export CFLAGS="-O2 -arch x86_64"
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include"

Then run:

sudo port install libyaml
rvm reinstall ruby-1.9.3 --with-openssl-dir=/opt/local --with-opt-dir=/opt/local