# Resources for installation problems

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/resources-for-installation-problems/6958>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [21 July 2003 20:46 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/resources-for-installation-problems/6958 "2003-07-21T20:46:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@vampire](https://rubytalk.org/u/vampire)\
**Post date:** [21 July 2003 20:46 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/resources-for-installation-problems/6958/1 "2003-07-21T20:46:23Z")

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Hello -  
I am looking for resources on the web to help troubleshoot problems with the installation of OCI8 for Ruby  
1.6.8. on the Solaris 8 platform (SPARC). The error that I am receiving is:

hermes # make  
cd src && ruby extconf.rb  
checking for gcc… yes  
Get the version of Oracle from SQL\*Plus… 920  
try -I/ORACLE/product/9.2.0/rdbms/demo  
checking for oci.h… no  
try -I/ORACLE/product/9.2.0/rdbms/demo -I/ORACLE/product/9.2.0/rdbms/public  
checking for oci.h… yes  
Running make for $ORACLE\_HOME/rdbms/demo/demo\_rdbms.mk (build) …OK  
checking for OCIInitialize()… no  
retry with postfix 32.  
Running make for $ORACLE\_HOME/rdbms/demo/demo\_rdbms.mk (build32) …/oraconf.rb:249:in `get_libs': Cannot get proper li bs. (RuntimeError) from ./oraconf.rb:113:in`initialize’  
from extconf.rb:4:in `new' from extconf.rb:4 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target`src/Makefile’

and this is with version ruby-oci8-0.1.4 (I have tried p1 as well)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks  
David