From: kjana@...4lab.to (YANAGAWA Kazuhisa)
Date: 2002-05-26T12:09:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble installing the mysql module

In message <3CF005B0.4090608@hotmail.com>
fokke_wulf@hotmail.com writes:

> gcc -o conftest -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i586-linux-gnu -O3  -pipe 
> -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -ffast-math -fno-strength-reduce 
> -I/usr/include   -I/usr/lib/include -rdynamic  -L/usr/lib/lib 
> -L/usr/lib/lib/mysql conftest.c -lmysqlclient -lnsl -lz -lm -lc  -ldl 
> -lcrypt -lm
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient
> 
> several times. I'm relatively new to linux, and have no idea how to fix 
> this. What do I do?

Assuming MySQL itself is already installed....  Do you really have a
directory `/usr/lib/lib' and installed MySQL to that directory?

mkmf.log says gcc searched libmysqlclient.so or such from default
directories plus /usr/lib/lib and /usr/lib/libmysql and then failed.

Probably you mistakenly feed /usr/lib/lib as an argument of extconf.rb
or you should pass the correct path to MySQL installation to it.


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kjana@dm4lab.to                                   May 26, 2002
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