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
http://www.rubyforums.com/showthread.php?p=462
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 S. ------------------------ [email protected]
i use debian and i faced with the same problem. i installed the
mysql-lib-dev package and that solved this problem. you can try this
way.
Hassan S. wrote:
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
http://www.rubyforums.com/showthread.php?p=462
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 S. ------------------------ [email protected]
On 7/22/07, Bahadýr Doðan [email protected] wrote:
i use debian and i faced with the same problem. i installed the
mysql-lib-dev package and that solved this problem.
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?
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Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
On 7/22/07, Bahadýr Doðan [email protected] wrote:
I didn’t compile it. i get mysql-dev-lib using “apt-get” utility and
then installed mysql gem with “gem install mysql”. all is that.
‘gem install mysql’ uses gcc – what do you get from which gcc?
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Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
I didn’t compile it. i get mysql-dev-lib using “apt-get” utility and
then installed mysql gem with “gem install mysql”. all is that.
Hassan S. wrote:
On 7/22/07, Bahad�r Do�an [email protected] wrote:
i use debian and i faced with the same problem. i installed the
mysql-lib-dev package and that solved this problem.
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 S. ------------------------ [email protected]
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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On Jul 22, 8:35 pm, “Hassan S.” [email protected]
for CentOS,
yum installmysql-devel
gem install mysql – --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config
Dave Stevenson wrote:
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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http://www.gotossh.com - web based SSH
On Jul 22, 8:35 pm, “Hassan S.” [email protected]
On 7/23/07, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:
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
! 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…
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Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]