Depends on your OS, I guess. On FreeBSD you can just go to the 'php5-extensions' port, run a 'make config', and deselect everything but
the MySQL extension. Then it will only build mysql.so for you. Very easy. :) - Mark From: Martin Gainty [mailto:mgai...@hotmail.com] Sent: donderdag 7 mei 2009 15:15 To: ad...@asarian-host.net; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Problems After MySql 5.1.34 Gary this isnt mysql's fault that php has such abysmal build tools..try requesting a web developer to simply download php and run the proprietary binary tools after a week of sleepless nights and endless searching for the right dll/so/lib and endless searching for the right tools i guarantee they will call no joy and implement the webapp in Java! Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and Confidentiality/Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité This message is confidential. If you should not be the intended receiver, then we ask politely to report. Each unauthorized forwarding or manufacturing of a copy is inadmissible. This message serves only for the exchange of information and has no legal binding effect. Due to the easy manipulation of emails we cannot take responsibility over the the contents. Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie nicht der vorgesehene Empfaenger sein, so bitten wir hoeflich um eine Mitteilung. Jede unbefugte Weiterleitung oder Fertigung einer Kopie ist unzulaessig. Diese Nachricht dient lediglich dem Austausch von Informationen und entfaltet keine rechtliche Bindungswirkung. Aufgrund der leichten Manipulierbarkeit von E-Mails koennen wir keine Haftung fuer den Inhalt uebernehmen. Ce message est confidentiel et peut être privilégié. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire prévu, nous te demandons avec bonté que pour satisfaire informez l'expéditeur. N'importe quelle diffusion non autorisée ou la copie de ceci est interdite. Ce message sert à l'information seulement et n'aura pas n'importe quel effet légalement obligatoire. Étant donné que les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > From: ad...@asarian-host.net > Subject: RE: Problems After MySql 5.1.34 > Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:57:42 +0000 > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > > Gary wrote: > > > Welcome to the hell that is php + apache + mysql. If you upgrade your > > MySql (especially major versions 5.0 => 5.1) you will also need to > > recompile php against the new MySql client libs. We've had very > > limited success trying to get it to work otherwise. > > Well, you don't actually have to recompile PHP entirely, of course: just > its mysql..so extension. > > @TS: Other than that, you basically need to recompile *everything* (or its > mysql dynamic libraries) when you upgrade MySQL. This includes Perl, btw; > so you'd need to build DBD:mysql as well (same for Python, etc). > > Walter wrote: > > > Any (major)upgrade of mysql client requires the dependent subsystem to > > upgrade also. Anything else would be careless since you do not know if the > > interface has changed. > > Actually, you *do* know: that's what the changelog is for. :) When C > header changes are made, an upgrade is in order. If not, when upgrading > between minor versions, say, from 5.0.51 -> 5.0.67 (just an example), you > won't need to recompile all system-wide MySQL client extensions. I've done > this many times, without issue: you just need to be absolutely sure no > header changes were made (when in doubt, recompile).. > > I recently upgraded to 5.1.34 as well; and it was indeed a hell. :) It's > working just fine, but I spent several hours recompiling MySL client > stuff; without doing so, your apps will likely behave erratically, or just > segfault altogether. > > This isn't a MySL hell exclusively, btw. You'll get the same issue > upgrading PostgreSQL, or BerkeleyDB, etc. It's just the nature of the > beast. > > - Mark > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=mgai...@hotmail.com > _____ Windows Live: Keep your life in sync. Check it out. <http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009>
