Re: Problems installing DBD::mysql W/ MySQL 4.2 on Debian Linux

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Hal Vaughan wrote:

>On Sunday 29 August 2004 08:45 pm, Rudy Lippan wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>> > So what can I do to install this?  I'd prefer to get it working with the
>> > later version of MySQL, but if I have to wipe that and go with apt-get
>> > packages, I can do
>> > that.  At this point, I ma very frustrated because it's not working with
>> > the "official" package and it doesn't work with the Debian .deb files
>> > (they don't include mysql_config, and it always complains about not
>> > finding that).
>>
>> the missing net_buffer_lengh symbol normally means that the mysql
>> libraries cannot be found; however, I vaguely remember a problem with the
>> later 4.1.x servers when MYSQL_CLIENT is not defined. So if you can build
>> DBD::mysql against an older mysql, you might want to try looking at adding
>> a -DMYSQL_CLIENT(sp) to the Makefile (or makefile.pl) otherwise look into
>> making sure that DBD::mysql can find the mysql libraries.
>>
>> And of course, I would like to know what the solution ended up being so
>> that I can change Makefile.PL if needed.
>
>Okay, here's what worked.  Some of this is the same.
>
>I unpacked MySQL 4.2 and installed it to /usr/local/mysql.

4.2 ?? I can't find this version


>cp /usr/local/mysql/lib/* /usr/lib/*
>cp /usr/local/mysql/include/* /usr/include/
>
>THEN I did perl Makefile.PL ... etc. and it worked.
>
>I had tried to install a number of times the Debian way -- by apt-get'ing 
>mysql-common, mysql-server, libdbd-mysql-perl and, I think, 2 other packages 
>(as per instructions in DBD::MySQL).  I would get an error because it 
>couldn't find mysql_config.  I know absolutely nothing about C and compiling 
>C.  I also don't know if Debian is supposed to have .debs for Perl modules, 
>but it would seem to me for this to work well on Debian based systems, that 
>it would be necessary to find a way to bypass mysql_config or, since it's a 
>Perl script, and open source, would it be possible to just incorporate it 
>into the DBD::mysql package?  (I don't know -- I've never done any packaging, 
>but it's just a thought).
>
>Hal
>
>> Rudy.
>
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