From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-07-27T06:44:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18600] Re: Which database should I use?

Massimiliano Mirra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:40:37AM +0900, Michael Neumann wrote:
> > I've successfully tried Oracle, DB2, ODBC, InterBase, MySQL, msql, PostgreSQL with Ruby.
> > So I have NetBSD, with Debian this should work as well (even better, I think).
> > Where is your problem, exactly?
> 
> Michael, hello to you and to everybody.  
> 
> I'm a newbie, after not quite getting on friendly terms with Python
> for some weeks, a couple of days ago I've began playing with Ruby and
> fell completely in love with it.  My sincere congratulations to Matz
> and to The Pragmatic Programmers for the incredible work.
> 
> I'm in a similar situation as the original poster of this thread.  I
> run Debian (testing aka woody) with Ruby 1.6.3 and PostgreSQL 7.1.  I
> have tried to compile libpgsql-ruby-0.6.4 by following the steps in
> the README file, and this is the output of ``ruby extconf.rb'':
> 
> extconf.rb:6:in `require': No such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
> 	from extconf.rb:6

That's a problem with the Ruby installation.
Perhaps you should try to compile/install Ruby yourself.

> According to the README the version requirements are met, where should
> 'mkmf' be/where can I get it?

mkmf.rb should reside in /usr/pkg/lib/ruby/1.6 or a similar directory of Debian.


Regards,

  Michael


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