Re: DBD::mysql -- Perl Module wont install

[Robert Mazur]

Hey guys,

Just a moment ago I posted this in a perl newsgroup. I had the same issue for the past few days.

Solution to getting DBD::mysql to build:

Build MySQL from source so that the libraries needed for the DBD::mysql
install exist. Some of them are not provided with the binary downloads
of MySQL. This worked for me on both a Solaris9 box, as well as a
SuSE9.1 box using MySQL4.1.11 and perl 5.8.6...both built with gcc.

Note that when installing DBD::mysql, you will want MySQL up and
running, and you will want to be sure you have proper permissions set
to access the database. You may want to install DBD::mysql by hand
(opposed to CPAN) so you can pass user/pass args to be used when perl
tries to access the database. Otherwise you are going to get errors
during the "make test".

Also be sure you have all your ncurses, termcap and libz packages installed on your linux box.

Have fun everyone.
Rob