[chef] OpenSolaris snv_111b (take 2) relocation error

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I followed the directions on :
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation+on+OpenSolaris+2008.11+with+RubyGems

but after validation, I get:

 :/var/ruby/1.8/gem_home/gems/ohai-0.3.6/lib/ohai/plugins#
 chef-client

[Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:40:38 -0800] INFO: Starting Chef Run
ld.so.1: ruby: fatal: relocation error: file
/var/ruby/1.8/gem_home/gems/json-1.2.0/ext/json/ext/generator.so: symbol 
isinf:
referenced symbol not found
Killed

# gem env
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-solaris2.11]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/ruby/1.8/gem_home
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/ruby/1.8/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /var/ruby/1.8/gem_home/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-solaris-2.11
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /var/ruby/1.8/gem_home
     - /root/.gem/ruby/1.8
     - /usr/ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - :sources => ["http://gems.rubyforge.org/", "http://gems.opscode.com";]
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://gems.rubyforge.org/
     - http://gems.opscode.com

I wasn't finding an easy way to reset the exec dir, so I just created a link:
# ls -l /var/ruby/1.8/gem_home/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec  3 04:42 /var/ruby/1.8/gem_home/bin -> /usr/bin

but that didn't change anything.

At the top of the opscode page it says:
'On snv_117 I had trouble getting the json gem to build, adding -std=c99 to 
gcc
options in extconf.rb solved this.'

uh... what?
# slocate extconf.rb
/var/ruby/1.8/gem_home/gems/json-1.2.0/ext/json/ext/parser/extconf.rb
/var/ruby/1.8/gem_home/gems/json-1.2.0/ext/json/ext/generator/extconf.rb

ok, so I added '-stdc=c99' to the 2 files found... but when I recompile gems,
it overwrites the files.
So that (obviously) isn't right.

In my google searches, I didn't find anything useful in relation to the error.
I'm guessing this is a ruby error more than chef, but some direction to pursue
would be helpful.

Bill