hassan
July 21, 2007, 5:28pm
1
I've found other online references to this error:
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
ruby extconf.rb install mysql
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
... blah blah
The most apparently relevant is old, though, from November 2005
<game pha gach - Loto188 ;
blaming gcc4.
Is this still the case? Does anyone know of an alternative workaround?
Unfortunately I only have gcc4.0.2 on this system (SuSE 10.0 64bit).
TIA,
hassan
July 22, 2007, 10:02pm
2
No, I already have all the dev header stuff; what version(s) of gcc are
on your system? Or more to the point, which did you use to compile?
hassan
July 23, 2007, 2:35am
3
'gem install mysql' uses gcc -- what do you get from `which gcc`?
dnstevenson
July 24, 2007, 1:32am
4
Here's what I do on my Centos 4/5 boxes. After installing mysql and
mysql-devel (using yum), I do this:
gem install mysql (let it fail)
cd /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7
ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config
make && make install from gem directory
Hope this helps,
Dave
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hassan
July 24, 2007, 2:22pm
5
! Thanks, that /seemed/ to work, in the sense that no error messages
were generated
However, when I do a `gem query --local` there's no 'mysql' in the
list -- is that normal?
Having gotten this far I'd like to see the documentation and run the
unit tests...
