From: Scott Mathieson <uberkorp@...>
Date: 2006-07-04T11:20:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with rubygems (and postgres)

sorry, must be sleeping - final step is to 

make install


On Tuesday 04 July 2006 02:37, Scott Mathieson wrote:
> just a fyi, but i had the same issue hours ago on a fedora box and got it
> working using
>
> gem install postgres -- --with-pgsql-dir=/usr/local/pgsql
>
> (extra -- is correct),then manually making it...
>
> cd /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/postgres-0.7.1/
> ruby extconf.rb \
> --with-pgsql-include-dir=/usr/local/pgsql/include \
> --with-pgsql-lib-dir=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
>
> obvious path changes as req., sorry 'bout the breaks
> (info found @
> http://www.nostalgix.org/blog/2005/06/hack-lot-ruby-on-rails-tiger-and.html
>)
>
> might have been easier using the tarball... :P