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I'm just passing along a tip that I had to dig out myself. This makes it easier for me to find as well. :)
When you're coding a C extension for Ruby, and you use mkmf to create your Ruby Makefile on a Solaris box, the install will fail (or at least, mine did). The compile step worked fine, but "make install" failed oddly.
Add these two bits to your generated Makefile.
-lsocket -lnsl.
I added it after -lingres and the installed worked perfectly.
I'd love to give someone credit for the tip, but I found it on Google (or was it Yahoo?) late one night and I can't find the post again. :(
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