Okay, I re-investigated the problem after it did also show up in one of my mailing lists... and after around 1h or searching on google and bash scripting, I arrived at the following solution.

it seems that perl can't access some library functions that it needs. Meaning: It doesn't have access to the mysql libraries and/or includes.

• You might want to do the following:
• Search for MYSQL, e.g.:
  • sudo find / mysql | grep mysql
• Depending on where mysql is installed, you get one location for the main file returned. E.g.:
  • /usr/mysql
• Now... take a look at your PATH, e.g.:
  • set | grep PATH
• Are the directories for the mysql main directory included in the PATH?
  If not you have two choices:
  1. add the mysql main directory to the path
     • PATH=$PATH:/usr/mysql
  2. add INCLUDE and LIBRARY tags for mysql
     • export MYSQL_INCLUDE="/usr/mysql/include"
     • export MYSQL_LIBRARY="/usr/mysql/lib"

Hope this helps.

/oliver/

Update: Added <code> tags around the "two choices" code snippets.

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.