Hello blackrussian,

I have been developping Perl projects on that very same platform you're using, but never encountered a problem such as yours. First and foremost, use the CPAN module as marto suggested. Next, remember that many of the tests performed by DBD::mysql need to be able to connect to the mysql server. You should have seen something like this when running perl Makefile.PL:

I will use the following settings for compiling and testing:

  cflags        (mysql_config) = -I/usr/local/mysql/include -Os -arch 
+ppc -fno-common
  embedded      (mysql_config) = 
  libs          (mysql_config) = -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient 
+-lz -lm
  mysql_config  (guessed     ) = mysql_config
  nocatchstderr (default     ) = 0
  nofoundrows   (default     ) = 0
  ssl           (guessed     ) = 0
  testdb        (default     ) = test
  testhost      (default     ) = 
  testpassword  (default     ) = 
  testsocket    (default     ) = 
  testuser      (default     ) = 

To change these settings, see 'perl Makefile.PL --help' and
'perldoc INSTALL'.
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You can correct these settings either by adding arguments to the command, as in perl Makefile.PL --testuser=foo --testpassword=bar or by using the CPAN module configuration options: o conf makepl_arg "--testuser=foo --testpassword=bar".

Try again with that first, knowing that you shouldn't have to update your perl version at all (I didn't need to), but that doing it could be a solution if all else fails.

Hope this helps.