I wanted to access a mysql-Database from perl. Use DBI. Ok. Now perl wants to load DBD::mysql. Go to CPAN and fetch it. make test fails! Huh?
Now the fun begins:
First test failed because it could not connect to the server. Because on this server user root doesn't exist. Look at the source: DBI_USER and DBI_PASS are for this. Set the vars. Futile: make test doesn't give them to perl.

Create user root. Tests fail again: misnumbered tests? Or genuine fails?
But some light: cc warns about double definition of "do" and "rows".

Ok, try older version (3.0007). Does not compile. Parse error at rows(Line 2390). Looking at the source: nothing obvious(Line reads "my_ulonglong rows= 0;" And no silly games with forgotten semicola.

Go still older (3.0006). Same results as 3.0008.

Try this: mysql is quite old, try some 2.x version. Yes it works.

So my question is: Will DBD-mysql-3* ever work with older mysql versions?

In reply to Mysql 3.23.58 and DBD::mysql by Anonymous Monk

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