Re: DBD::mysql against mariadb client

On Oct 15, 2013, at 1:32 AM, Michiel Beijen wrote:

> 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.

If this moves forward...

Please ensure that it remains possible to use the libraries from an
existing MySQL installation, so that the bundled library need not be
installed or used when there is already one available.

> 
> 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