Rubygems - Mysql

[Michael Satterwhite]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 18:51 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>> I'm trying to do a "gem install mysql", but I can't get the gem to
>> build. Right at the beginning, I'm getting the error
>>
>> ------------------
>> find_library: checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient...
>> -------------------
>> - no
>>
>> "gcc -o conftest -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I.
>> -I/usr/local/include  -g
>>  -O2 conftest.c  -L'/usr/local/lib' -Wl,-R'/usr/local/lib' -L'/usr/lib'
>> -Wl,-R'/
>> usr/lib'  -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic     -lruby-static -lmysqlclient
>> -ldl -l
>> crypt -lm   -lc"
>> conftest.c: In function ‘t’:
>> conftest.c:3: error: ‘mysql_query’ undeclared (first use in this
>> function)
>> --------------------
>>
>> I'm sure this is something that I need to install in Fedora, but I'm not
>> sure which package would have this. Can anyone offer any advice?
> ----
>  # locate mysqlclient
> /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15
> /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0
> /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.15
> /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0
> 
> # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15
> mysql-5.0.22-1.FC5.1
> 
> make sure you install 'gems' as root

I am running as root (at least doing that right). I just did a
   yum install mysql-5.0.22-1.FC5.1

It reported that it did not have anything to do. Running
   gem install mysql -y
still gives the same error.