Problem installing sqlite3-ruby!

Question

I\'m having issues installing the sqlite3-ruby gem on crunchbang linux. After googling the past few hours and following several people with the same problem, I still haven\

Answer 1

This is due to extconf.rb picking up your old 3.5.9 library when testing for functions before putting together the Makefile.

One solution to cut this short is to apt-get remove sqlite3 and retry

sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby -- --with-sqlite3-dir=$HOME/sqlite

This may save you from incompatibilities if you want to use sqlite3 command line binary.

Another solution is to copy your new ~/sqlite/lib/libsqlite3.a into the build directory of your gem (see gem env, something like gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.3.1/ext/sqlite3) and retry

sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby

The test should pick up your new library now and install fine.