Sorry, what did you mean by this? ** Does it work if you try "sudo gem install ruby-oci -- --with-instant- client" ? **
sudo gem install ruby-oci -- --with-instant-client (Is the syntax correct? I get error when I paste it as it is) Also, I think when I do "sudo", the path information is not passed. Thanks Catel On Sep 16, 3:22 pm, Daniel Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 16, 2:05 pm, catel1 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > My company's System-admin installed Ruby and Gems (using Sun Coolstack > > package) and I have sudo access to ruby, gem etc. Now I need to get my > > app to talk to oracle db (through network). > > From what I understand, it requires three steps: > > Step 1: Install oracle instant client ( I installed it in my ~/oracle/ > > instantclient_11_1) > > Step2: Install OCI8 libraries (this is where I am stuck). Here is the > > error message: > > ***********ERROR MESSAGE*************** > > > bash-3.00$ sudo gem install ruby-oci8 > > Building native extensions. This could take a while... > > ERROR: Error installing ruby-oci8: > > ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. > > > /opt/coolstack/bin/ruby extconf.rb > > checking for load library path... > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH_32 is not set. > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set. > > checking for cc... *** extconf.rb failed *** > > Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of > > necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more > > details. You may need configuration options. > > > Provided configuration options: > > --with-opt-dir > > --without-opt-dir > > --with-opt-include > > --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include > > --with-opt-lib > > --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib > > --with-make-prog > > --without-make-prog > > --srcdir=. > > --curdir > > --ruby=/opt/coolstack/bin/ruby > > --with-instant-client > > --without-instant-client > > <snip> > > Does it work if you try "sudo gem install ruby-oci -- --with-instant- > client" ? > > If not, try setting $ORACLE_HOME to wherever you installed the instant > client and try again. > > If that still doesn't work, this blog post may be of interest: > > http://ktulu.com.ar/blog/2009/01/30/installing-ruby-oci8-with-oracle-... > > (In short, it looks like the directory layout changed in 11g) > > Regards, > > Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
