From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca@...>
Date: 2010-11-09T08:00:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-pg gem fails to install

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Alex Stahl <astahl@hi5.com> wrote:
>> Just ran into the same thing myself... installing 'libpq-dev' seemed to
>> have solved it:
>>
>>>sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
>
> That won't matter on an install from source, like the OP is doing.
>
> Ben

Ben thanks for your clue, I got the gem to build and install. I just
needed to add the executable pg_config not just its path:

 sudo gem install pg --
--with-pg-config=/opt/postgresql-9.0.1/src/bin/pg_config/pg_config

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