On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 18:51 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I'm trying to do a "gem install mysql", but I can't get the gem to > build. Right at the beginning, I'm getting the error > > ------------------ > find_library: checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... > ------------------- > - no > > "gcc -o conftest -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. > -I/usr/local/include -g > -O2 conftest.c -L'/usr/local/lib' -Wl,-R'/usr/local/lib' -L'/usr/lib' > -Wl,-R'/ > usr/lib' -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -lruby-static -lmysqlclient > -ldl -l > crypt -lm -lc" > conftest.c: In function ‘t’: > conftest.c:3: error: ‘mysql_query’ undeclared (first use in this > function) > -------------------- > > I'm sure this is something that I need to install in Fedora, but I'm not > sure which package would have this. Can anyone offer any advice? ---- # locate mysqlclient /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15 /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.15 /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0 # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15 mysql-5.0.22-1.FC5.1 make sure you install 'gems' as root Craig