You're mixing 32-bit and 64-bit libraries. Maybe Ruby is a 32-bit program and mysql.so is a 64-bit shared object. On 1/15/08, Andrew Ohnstad <andrew.ohnstad / gmail.com> wrote: > Thomas Hurst wrote: > > * Andrew Ohnstad (andrew.ohnstad / gmail.com) wrote: > > > >> Solaris 10 x86 on a 64-bit Xenon server... Can anyone guess where this > >> is going? > > > > It's *Xeon*. Every time you say Xenon an Intel marketing team member > > kills himself. Hm.. carry on. > > Oops, I mean I meant to do that, I mean oops... }:0 > > > > This looks like a Solaris bug: > > > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6531439 > > > > If the workaround described there doesn't work you might try getting the > > mysql extension tarball and messing about with extconf (maybe > > --with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/amd64? ugh) and/or the Makefile. > > > > You might also try strace/dtrace to see where the linker's looking for > > the library first, in case that workaround is incomplete. > > Yuck. > > This is a nudge in the right direction. I was monkeying around with the > libraries mentioned in the bug report, (originally all of them existed > in some form, dunno if links or files) and ln'ed when I meant to ls and > lost track of what I was doing. Strangely enough, it compiled without a > hitch immediately thereafter. > > Sadly, it still doesn't work... > > andrewo@host:~/test# script/console > Loading development environment. > >> require 'mysql' > LoadError: ld.so.1: ruby: fatal: > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/lib/mysql.so: wrong ELF > class: ELFCLASS64 - > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/lib/mysql.so > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/lib/mysql.so > > > I'll keep messing with it. > > Thanks for the help. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- Gerardo Santana