Re^3: DBD::MySQL Install Problem

Unless you've specifically build mysql without the client libraries that would probably work.

But maybe the mysql_config program you've provided does not point to the right locations. (by the way, installing mysql should install mysql_config, that directory might not be in your path - it could be installed in /usr/sbin or /usr/local/bin for instance)

what does

mysql_config --libs
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print?

Mine (on linux) gives

-L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient
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Which means that libmysqlclient.so* should be installed in /usr/lib/mysql. Which is correct for my system.

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Re^4: DBD::MySQL Install Problem by SeekerOfPerl (Initiate) on Aug 22, 2007 at 16:58 UTC
The pre-build does not fix the problem with the DBD:Mysql. However just as I was about to throw the machine out in to the rain I was able to get DBI to work. ( At least at first glance. ) In my MySQL libs I had three instances of libmysqlclient. libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 libmysqlclient.so.15 libmysqlclient.so .so.15 and .so were links to libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 so I removed them. I then ran make again on DBD-mysql-4.005 and then make install. I then recreated the links I had removed. I then ran the test.pl which seemed to work as it gave me a good error : ) DBI connect('database=test;host=localhost','joe',...) failed: Access denied for user 'joe'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at test.pl line 7 I will run more tests today and then report back if there are any other problems.	[reply]
Re^5: DBD::MySQL Install Problem by Joost (Canon) on Aug 22, 2007 at 17:03 UTC
Those links are supposed to be there. So good thing you've recreated them :-) In any case it now appears to work. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]