From: George Ogata <george.ogata@...>
Date: 2007-02-04T02:58:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Fail to install postgres gem

On 2/4/07, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 23:55 +0900, Damian Terentyev wrote:
> > Gem files will remain installed in
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/postgres-0.7.1 for inspection.
>
> Hm, seems like it's not finding the PostgreSQL header and object files.
> You can probably get it to work by moving into that directory
> (/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/postgres-0.7.1) and running:
>
> ruby extconf.rb --with-pgsql-include-dir=/path/to/pgsql/headers
> --with-pgsql-lib-dir=/path/to/pgsql/shared_libs
>
> and then run "make" and "make install".

You can also achieve the same thing in one step with gem by passing
the extconf args after '--':

  gem install postgres -- --with-pgsql-include-dir=...