>Description: ./configure --help claims that the default value of localstatedir is PREFIX/var, but after setting --prefix it appears to be still pointing to '/var'.
>How-To-Repeat: ./configure --prefix=/opt/mysql-3.23.44 make make install ./scripts/mysql_install_db mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/mysql/mysql': Permission denied chmod: getting attributes of `/var/lib/mysql/mysql': No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/mysql/test': Permission denied chmod: getting attributes of `/var/lib/mysql/test': No such file or directory [etc] >Fix: additionally set --localstatedir on the configure line, I guess. >Submitter-Id: <submitter ID> >Originator: Hugo van der Sanden >Organization: >MySQL support: [none | licence | email support | extended email support ] none >Synopsis: configure flag '--localstatedir' does not adopt documented default >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Category: mysql configure >Class: sw-bug or doc-bug >Release: mysql-3.23.44 (Source distribution) mysql-3.23.44 (Source distribution) >Environment: System: Linux crypt.org 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown Architecture: i686 Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='' CXX='c++' CXXFLAGS='' LDFLAGS='' LIBC: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 1 20:37 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.2.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1236396 Apr 6 2001 /lib/libc-2.2.2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26350254 Apr 6 2001 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Apr 6 2001 /usr/lib/libc.so Configure command: ./configure --prefix=/opt/mysql-3.23.44 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php