From: Scott Thompson <easco@...>
Date: 2003-08-28T01:32:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Mac OS X and ruby-postgres again

> I have tried specifying library path when invoking extconf.rb, using
> this syntax:
>
> ruby extconf.rb --with-pgsql-include-dir=/usr/local/pgsql/include \
> --with-pgsql-lib-dir=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
>
> ...but I still get the same error that it can't find the postgres libs,
> although I have verified that the libraries in question are present in
> the specified location.

Another solution would be to edit the extconf.rb file, remove the 
"have_func" calls that are preventing it from creating the make file, 
create the makefile, and deal with linker errors that come up from the 
make by editing the makefile.

Scott