Installing DBD-mysql-2.9003

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

I try and install DBD-mysql-2.9003 and after "perl Makefile.PL" I get this:


I will use the following settings for compiling and testing:

  cflags        (mysql_config) = -I'/usr/include/mysql'
  libs          (mysql_config) = -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -l
+crypt -lnsl -lm
  nocatchstderr (default     ) = 0
  nofoundrows   (default     ) = 0
  ssl           (guessed     ) = 0
  testdb        (default     ) = test
  testhost      (default     ) =
  testpassword  (default     ) =
  testuser      (default     ) =

To change these settings, see 'perl Makefile.PL --help' and
'perldoc INSTALL'.

Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8
+.0/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm line 97.
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So I go to Kid.pm, and line 97 says:

if (@fullname =
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and line 98 is:

$self->lsdir($thispth,"^\Qlib$thislib.$so.\E[0-9]+")){
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So I combine them so line 97 now reads:

if (@fullname = $self->lsdir($thispth,"^\Qlib$thislib.$so.\E[0-9]+")){
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but still doesn't work, I get the same errors, anyone know what's wrong?

Thanks

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Re: Installing DBD-mysql-2.9003 by matija (Priest) on Apr 04, 2004 at 05:17 UTC
Your problem wasn't that the line 97 contained a newline, it was that one of the variables `($thispth,$thislib,$so)` contained a newline. The question is, how did the newline get there? Do any of the lib directories contain a filename that has a newline in it's name?	[reply] [d/l]