DBD::mysql install problems

stew has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I am having problems installing DBD:mysql and was wondering if any of my fellow monks could help.

perl Makefile.PL returns 116 lines of this

Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8
+.0/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm line 97.
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Then this

Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lmysqlclient
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Then another 100 lines of this

Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8
+.0/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm line 97.
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It will make the 'Makefile' but when I run 'make' I get

Makefile:89: *** missing separator.  Stop.
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Any ideas warmly accepted - Stew

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Re: DBD::mysql install problems by stew (Scribe) on Jan 23, 2004 at 11:50 UTC
Cracked it! A simple 'unset LANG' got round a quirk in my version of RH Thanks everbody	[reply]
Re: Re: DBD::mysql install problems by xenchu (Friar) on Jan 23, 2004 at 13:22 UTC
What version of RH are you using? Inquiring user(s) want(s) to know. xenchu `The Needs of the World and my Talents run parallel to infinity.`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: DBD::mysql install problems by stew (Scribe) on Jan 23, 2004 at 13:36 UTC
Sorry, forgot to say I'm using RH9. See item 4) Section 'KNOWN PROBLEMS' of the INSTALL.html that comes with the DBD-mysql-2.9003.tar.gz package. (I couldn't get it to install thru CPAN at all!!) Incidentally, I had trouble installing Lingua::Stem.PM thru CPAN again because of malformed UTF-8 characters. UTF-8 seems to be the default on RH8&9	[reply]
Re: DBD::mysql install problems by Anonymous Monk on Jan 23, 2004 at 11:29 UTC
Makefile:89: ** missing separator. Stop.* If you super search you'll find out that you get this because you're using the wrong make.	[reply]
Re: DBD::mysql install problems by Anonymous Monk on Jan 23, 2004 at 11:32 UTC
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lmysqlclient MakeMaker says probably, but in this case, it's not harmless. You can't compile DBD::mysql without the mysqlclient libraries.	[reply]
Re: DBD::mysql install problems by Anonymous Monk on Jan 23, 2004 at 11:31 UTC
Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at /usr/lib/perl5... Whatever libs you're passing, they somehow contain newlines (not good). See ExtUtils::Liblist for details.	[reply]