From: Steven Hansen <runner@...>
Date: 2006-12-07T01:57:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Mkmf to Verify Libraries

vincent.fourmond@9online.fr wrote:
> > I have two identical machines.
>
> Careful, 'identical' means the md5sum of all disks match and the 
> hardware is the same. That's hard ;-)...
>
> > On machine 1:
> > find_library('mysqlclient', 'mysql_query', '/path/to/lib') => true
> > On machine 2:
> > find_library('mysqlclient', 'mysql_query', '/path/to/lib') => false
> > libmysqlclient.a is installed in the exact same location on both
> > machines.
>
> There are several things that could be causing this. First, are you 
> sure that the rbconfig.rb files are the same in both machines ? There 
> are several path stored in this file. Moreover, mkmf is aware of some 
> environment variables. Check first that
> set
> and
> ruby -r rbconfig -e 'p Config::CONFIG'
> gives you the same things. If not, it should be easy to track the problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vince 

Daniel and Vince, thanks for the leads. :-)

Regards,
Steven