Re: problems installing DBD::mysql

[Kevin Wagner]

Hi Florian,

I was having a problem with 'make test' but it looks similar. There was another post in the forum with the 'make test' problem but it is closed - apparently with no resolution - so I can not respond to it.

I fixed mine by adding the following to my .bash_profile (you can do it on the command line as well):
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/mybase/mysql/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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Change /mybase/mysql/lib to wherever your libmysqlclient.so.16 is located. I tried many other things prior to this but am 99% sure this is what did it.

It looks like the make from DBD can not find the libraries - even with a soft link? It may be due to libraries form some loads residing in lib/mysql rather than mysql/lib.

Anyway, this worked for me - Good luck.