David, I'm definitely NOT a MakeMaker expert, so I can't help with
why that is rejecting the static lib. You probably already know this
method of solving shared library linking problems, but here it is
just in case you don't:
Do these commands as "root"
1) do a "locate mysqlclient.so"
- the results will reveal something like this for example:
/path/to/mysql/mysqlclient.so
2) cd /etc
3) edit ld.so.conf, and add the *directory* in which mysqlclient.so
sits:
- add "/path/to/mysql" line to ld.so.conf
4) run "ldconfig" to relink to shared libraries
Then try running your DBI/MySQL app again, and hopefully it will
work.
HTH.
--
Hardy Merrill
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
David Knox [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Perl: 5.6.1
> OS: Solaris 2.8
> MySQL:3.23.45
>
> I'm getting the dreaded:
> "failed:: can't load 'blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/msyql.so"
> I read in the documentation that this is happening because, even though
> the -L switch is pointing to the correct location, it can't load
> libmysqlclient.so. So I tried the static libmysqlclient.a. But, the
> Makefile.PL rejects it as an unknown switch.
>
> I'm a bit confused as to why libmysqlclient.so can't be found when the
> switch points to the correct location. And, confused again about why
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker rejects the static lib.
>
> Can someone help un-befuddle me?
>
> -dk
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