From: mail@...
Date: 2005-08-13T05:36:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Postgres-0.7.1 Installation Question


gregarican wrote:

> function for socket() the ld program can't find -lsocket. Is this
> referring to the Ruby socket.so file or some socket file that should be
> present in the PostgreSQL installation directories? I don't have
> PostgreSQL compiled on the system. I just have the source code
> directories since they have the include and lib directories that I
> thought Ruby would need in order to install ruby-postgres-0.7.1. What
> exactly is the extconf.rb script looking for when it's trying to find
> socket()? If anyone could point me in the right direction (i.e. - Ruby
> or PostgreSQL) I'd be eternally grateful :-)

A guess: Glibc 2.0. Postgres has PQsocket. I have postgres-0.7.1
installed on a normal Linux system and there mkmf.log contains also
errors about not being able to find -lsocket or socket(). The Ruby
socket lib itself uses socket@@GLIBC_2.0