Is there a reason why you want to install from the source? For many systems there are pre-compiled binaries: see the DBD-mysql-2.1026 README.

For Perl 5.6 this module is available from the ActiveState PPM repository for the following systems: Windows, Linux and Solaris. It is not available for HPUX.

For Perl 5.8 a PPM package is available for Linux and Solaris.

If necessary you can always try the PurePerl version of the MYSQL-DBD package.

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