For the @INC issue just do: 

use lib './';   # put current dir into @INC

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For MySQL it would seem unlikely that your assignment requires a running copy of MySQL wrapped with it. This makes no sense. You can change the data path via starting mysql with --datadir=/path/to/datadir or by changing the the config options in /etc/my.cnf 

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

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Changing /etc/my.cnf is not going to work as this is not in your folder. Even if you could, either possible option to change the data path requires a server restart. It makes a lot more sense to use mysqldump or mysqlhotcopy to dump your DB and then just have a little shell/perl sctipt to create the DB and insert the data into a local MySQL. If you need one file stand alone functionality I sugges DBD::SQLlite is a better option.

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: MySQL and PERL by tachyon
in thread MySQL and PERL by Anonymous Monk

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