From: Saeed Bhuta <saeed.bhuta@...>
Date: 2010-03-04T01:18:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Pg gem for PostGreSQL 8.4

Reid Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 23:59 +0900, Saeed Bhuta wrote:
>> > 
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7583 2009-09-09 17:49 pg_config_manual.h
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 2010-03-02 10:13 8.4
> hmm -- until today, on my box
> 
> $ sudo gem install pg
> 
> resulted in 0.8.0 being installed
> 
> today, it installed 0.9.0.
> 
> try this
> 
> in your gems directory, remove the 0.9.0 directory
> (on my box this is at /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pg-0.9.0)
> 
> then try the install again
> 
> $ sudo gem install pg

Deleted the directory and tried the install again but no luck;
sudo gem install pg
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing pg:
  ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
checking for pg_config... yes
checking for libpq-fe.h... yes
checking for libpq/libpq-fs.h... yes
checking for PQconnectdb() in -lpq... no
checking for PQconnectdb() in -llibpq... no
checking for PQconnectdb() in -lms/libpq... no
Can't find the PostgreSQL client library (libpq)
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
  --with-opt-dir
  --without-opt-dir
  --with-opt-include
  --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
  --with-opt-lib
  --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
  --with-make-prog
  --without-make-prog
  --srcdir=.
  --curdir
  --ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
  --with-pg
  --without-pg
  --with-pg-config
  --without-pg-config
  --with-pg-dir
  --without-pg-dir
  --with-pg-include
  --without-pg-include=${pg-dir}/include
  --with-pg-lib
  --without-pg-lib=${pg-dir}/lib
  --enable-static-build
  --disable-static-build
  --with-pqlib
  --without-pqlib
  --with-libpqlib
  --without-libpqlib
  --with-ms/libpqlib
  --without-ms/libpqlib


Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/pg-0.9.0 for 
inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/pg-0.9.0/ext/gem_make.out
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