I got it working, but don't know if it's the "right way" to do it. After reading about places where binary files should live I tried copying the binary into /usr/bin:
then changed the permissions:
after that I was successful with:

FWIW on my imac with with intel core 2 duo I was getting around 1300 khash/s total, which isn't as good as what I got with jgarzik's cpu minor compiled for 64-bit Intel Mac, which yielded around 830 khash/s per core.

Thanks for compiling the binary! I downloaded it, cd'd into the directory that contains rpcminer, and then issued the following command:


Then I get the following error:


Anybody know what I could be doing wrong?