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OS X 10.4 Tiger ships with GCC 4.0, which not all software is ready to accept a compilation by. The MySQL C-bindings is such a piece of software, so before doing “sudo gem install mysql” be sure that you do a “sudo gcc_select 3.3” (you can switch back afterwards, if you fancy).