[ruby-talk:11179] Re: Problem compiling in MySQL support

On Tuesday 20 February 2001 11:10, Carl Youngblood composed:
> Thanks a lot, Glen!  After investigating the issue on the web for a day, I
> finally found a solution (in the MySQL online documentation) by putting a
> symlink to the libmysqlclient.so.10 file into /usr/lib, but your solution
> is better.  Sheesh, I like linux, but there are times when it can be very
> difficult to solve esoteric configuration issues.  Then again, this may be
> a very easy-to-solve issue for many out there.
>
> Thanks again,
>

Actually, Carl, creating a symlink is the "proper" way to do it. However, 
both methods work. The problem with the method I gave you is that your 
/etc/ld.so.conf file can become unmanageable.


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Glen
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