Dick Davies wrote:

>* Paul Vudmaska <paul / vudmaska.com> [0657 18:57]:
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>>Dick Davies wrote:
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>>>It looks like there's bits of an install left behind in usr/local.
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>>Here is the view from ssh.
>>[root@u15154846 mysql-ruby-2.4.5]# ruby extconf.rb 
>>--with-mysql-include=/usr/local/lib/mysql-standard-4.0.20-pc-linux-i686/include  
>>--with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/lib
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>See, this looks wrong to me. You've got a random header for some
>version and I don't think it matches the actual libraries in /usr/local.
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>The headers tell Ruby (or any C program) how to use the libraries,
>so if they're inconsistent that could well cause problems.
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No, that did not seem 'obvious' to me either howver I've tried the paths 
given by whereis :
[root@u15154846 root]# whereis mysql
mysql: /usr/bin/mysql /usr/lib/mysql /usr/local/lib/mysql 
/usr/share/mysql /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz

and --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config

With the same result.
You are right i've probably done it enuf to confuse everyone.
May as well close this thread. Thanks for your help.

:Paul