I've seen this before but I've forgotten how to solve it.
It appears that I have the mysql client libraries installed:
iono@retro[08:25:55][~/] locate libmysqlclient.so
/usr/lib/mysql3/mysql/libmysqlclient.so
/usr/lib/mysql3/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10
/usr/lib/mysql3/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14.0.0
My LD_LIBRARY_PATH is:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client64/lib:/usr/lib/mysql/
OS:
Linux XYZ 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 24 12:05:57 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
What gives?
Full "gem install mysql" output follows:
ERROR: Error installing mysql:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/home/iono/packages/ruby-1.8.7/bin/ruby extconf.rb install mysql
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lm... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lz... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lsocket... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lnsl... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/home/iono/packages/ruby-1.8.7/bin/ruby
--with-mysql-config
--without-mysql-config
--with-mysql-dir
--without-mysql-dir
--with-mysql-include
--without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include
--with-mysql-lib
--without-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
--with-mlib
--without-mlib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
--with-zlib
--without-zlib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
--with-socketlib
--without-socketlib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
--with-nsllib
--without-nsllib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
Gem files will remain installed in /home/iono/packages/gems/gems/mysql-2.7 for inspection.