From: Shalev NessAiver <shalev@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T10:39:04+09:00
Subject: Re: mysql/ruby bindings (GEM Issue)

Never mind. It had to do with Darwinports.
However, I would still like to know if this is the right place for such 
issues (in the future).

-Shalev


On Feb 17, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Shalev NessAiver wrote:

> If this isn't the right place for this... please let me know.  I'm 
> trying to get Rails working on OS X using DarwinPorts.
> So I set up mysql (sudo port install mysql) and then tried to run the 
> gem to install the mysql/ruby bindings...
>
> $sudo gem install mysq
> Attempting remote installation of 'mysql'
> Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> Gem files will remain installed in 
> /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.5.1 for inspection.
>   ruby extconf.rb install mysql\nchecking for mysql_query() in 
> -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for main() in -lm... yes
> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for main() in -lz... yes
> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for main() in -lsocket... no
> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for main() in -lnsl... no
> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
>
> I have not clue what this means.
> What's funny is that I can't remember ever having to install these 
> bindings before.
> Last time I tried Rails all I needed was "gem install rails", however 
> the "TODO list"
> tutorial says to install the ruby-mysql bindings too ?
>
> Thanks
> -Shalev
>
>