Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
hi,
i am a perl newbie and i was having some trouble installing
the msql and mysql modules for perl. the makefile asks me
for the location of the mysql directory where there is a
lib directory beneath and i don't seem to have such
directory anywhere on my hard drive. i installed mysql from
a binary distribution. the makefile therefore stops
proceeding. i would be grateful if you could help me out
with this. thanks in advance.
anuradha.
I guess you haven't installed the so-called development distribution.
Try to find (locate) on your system the missing files. If they are still missing,
try to figure out which is the development package for your mysql version, and install that as well.
By the way, this problem (and obviously the solution I offer) is system specific and not perl-related.
Good luck