Re: DBD::mysql against mariadb client

Hi Todd,

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Todd Rinaldo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maria DB provides a LGPL licensed client library that will connect to MySQL. I've gotten this library compiling to my needs. My hope was to get DBD::mysql to compile against it. I seem to be able to do so by running:

One of the ideas Patrick has (the DBD::mysql maintainer) is to bundle
the MariaDB libs with the DBD::mysql driver in the future, so all or
most DBD::mysql users have the same C libs.

I've been trying to compile against the MariaDB C library as well. I
also ran into some issues, which were resolved by the C lib maintainer
yesterday (see https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/CONC-57)

For the fixes, you should use the 'trunk' version of the MariaDB C
lib: https://code.launchpad.net/mariadb-native-client

bzr branch lp:mariadb-native-client
cd mariadb-native-client
cmake .
make
make install

There will be a 1.1 release of the C libraries on the MariaDB website
in the (forseeable) future. There is still a little documentation work
that needs to be done before it can be posted.

Now I was able to compile DBD::mysql:

perl Makefile.PL --mysql_config=/usr/local/bin/
mariadb_config
make
make test
make install

The DBD::mysql *tests* pass now, but you might still want to run your
local integration tests.

Please note that there are patches in the git repo for DBD::mysql to
correctly run tests against MariaDB 10; they are not yet on CPAN but
will be in about a week. Check out the git repository here.

https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/

note that on the git checkout, this test is still failing:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=89496

Please let me know if the above works for you!

--
Mike