> Wow you sent a lot of detail. Yes. Yes, I did :-) > Maybe not *quite* so much next time? :-) > > Still, if you want it fixed, it's better to err on the side of too much > data -- as here -- rather than not enough -- "my script don't work, why > not." -- so I'm ok with this :)
My thought exactly. If anything, I hope the mass of information was well organized. > Where did you get your MySQL from? Directly from a MySQL package that > was made for OSX? Compiled from source? Fink? Other? I downloaded the package from MySQL's site.. http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.0/mysql-standard-4.0.20-apple-dar win6.8-powerpc.dmg/from/pick > I think this line is a big hint: > >> Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lmysqlclient >> Using DBI 1.43 (for perl 5.008001 on darwin-thread-multi-2level) >> installed in /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBI >> Writing Makefile for DBD::mysql > > If DBD::mysql can't see the MySQL header files, you're probably in > trouble -- you'll get a warning like this, and later tests won't work. > > If you're using Fink to install MySQL, the 'mysql-dev' sub-package has > all the header files you need to make this warning go away; doing that > might be enough to fix things for you. I didn't use Fink. Any other options? > Also, are you installing these CPAN modules by hand, or are you using > the CPAN shell? Things are much easier with the shell -- all you have to > do is a line like this: > > $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::mysql' > > and, assuming I have the capitalization right, it'll Just Work. In Time. > > The fact that you spell out what you did for each of "perl Makefile.PL", > "make", etc suggests that you're doing this by hand. This used to be the > normal way to install Perl modules, but CPAN.pm has been around for a > few years now and it's much less painful than doing all this by hand. You would be right my friend. I'm building it by hand. Regards, Adam
