On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 19:25 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > 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 > > I am running as root (at least doing that right). I just did a > yum install mysql-5.0.22-1.FC5.1 ---- no - the command would be yum install mysql I suspect that it is already installed though ---- > > It reported that it did not have anything to do. Running > gem install mysql -y > still gives the same error. ---- OK - my fault because I use postgresql and not mysql give me a few minutes - I see the problem Craig
