David Fung wrote:

> I had the same problem as Daniel (except that i am using Mandrake 7.1) and
> after adding the -lz flag to the following line in the Makefile generated
> by running "ruby extconf.rb"
> 
>       DLDFLAGS = -L/usr/lib/mysql -lz
> 
> the test.rb runs fine!
> 
> Thanks Guy for your tips.
> 
> -David

It's all good now! What you do on Mandrake 7.1 works fine too on Mandrake 
7.2. :)

Thanks all
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Daniel Nicault
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