Fellow Monks,
I 've been trying to install DBD for MySQL for 2 days and keep running into road blocks. I'm obviously a novice at this, but am learning as I go. Trying to get to module-nirvana. Anyway, the latest error: 
Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL li
+ne 169.
readline() on closed filehandle PIPE at Makefile.PL line 171.
Failed to determine directory of libmysqlclient.a|libmysqlclient.so. U
+se

  perl Makefile.PL "--libs=-L<dir> -lmysqlclient"

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or 
perl Makefile.PL --cflags=-I<dir>

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My mysql_config file is in: 
/Library/eSuite4X/MySQL4/bin

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And I'm executing from: 
/Library/Perl/DBD-mysql-2.1028

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I have tried both: 
sudo perl Makefile.PL "--libs=-L/Library/eSuite4x/mysql4/bin/ -lmysqlc
+lient"

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and 
sudo perl Makefile.PL --cflags=-/Library/eSuite4x/mysql4/developer/inc
+lude/mysql/

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where my *.h files reside. I've Googled and SuperSearched for examples of how to set this up, but nothing is working. BTW, working on Mac OS 10.3 and had no problem setting up the DBI only minutes earlier. It's probably just a path problem.

Thanks in advance.

—Brad
"A little yeast leavens the whole dough."

In reply to Problem with setting locations in Makefile.PL by bradcathey

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