While trying to install mysql dbd module for ruby I encountered the following error:
/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/mysql.so: /usr/local/ruby/lib/ ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/mysql.so: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual - /usr/ local/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/mysql.so (LoadError) from ruby-db-client.rb:4 After some googling I found this is a problem with mysql 5.0.22. I was able to fix it by modyfing /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config and adding -lgcc to the libs argument. After reinstalling ruby everything worked fine.
