From: Thomas Yager-Madden <tym@...>
Date: 2003-08-28T17:43:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Mac OS X and ruby-postgres again

Thanks again to everyone for trying to help with this!

Of the various suggestions so far, this last has come closest to 
working.  Various suggestions (passing different parameter flags to the 
extconf, changing env variables, symlinking the postgresql libs from 
other paths) for getting extconf.rb to recognize my libpq and other 
PostgreSQL library files all lead to the same result, that "have_func" 
will not believe I have the libraries it wants, even though the 
libraries in question appear, by any other lights, to be *right there*.

But if I stop it from checking for them (ie comment out all the 
"if...have_func" lines, it will of course go ahead and create makefile.  
At first, submitting this to 'make' errors out -- which I would expect, 
since the makefile isn't really set up to link properly.  But I have 
managed to edit the makeflie, adding "-I/usr/local/pgsql/include" to the 
CPPFLAGS line, and "-L/usr/local/pgsql/lib" to LIBPATH.  At which point 
it appears to allow me to 'make' and 'make install' without error.

However, any attempt to run actual ruby code using "require 'postgres'"  
(e.g. 'test1.rb' from the /samples that ship with the extension) 
although it seems to load the module successfully (that is, I don't get 
a not found error for 'postgres' itself) then returns

dyld: ruby Undefined symbols:
_PQclear
_PQcmdStatus
_PQcmdTuples
_PQconsumeInput
_PQdb
.....

(I'm guessing this list of undefined symbols, which is lengthy, is all 
the methods in libpq.)

So, I feel like I'm getting closer, but still no cigar.

Any thoughts/suggestions?  I'm at a loss.  I'd really like to get this 
working, though.

 - Thomas


In article <F046CBC4-D8AB-11D7-B73A-000393803090@mac.com>,
 Scott Thompson <easco@mac.com> wrote:

> > 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
> 
>