I've read the document `Installing a MySQL Binary Distribution' that comes with each Unix binary distribution, and the MySQL manual (http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/full/), and the DynamicFAQ under `Installation' (http://swfaq.mysql.com/sw/bin/17/supportwizard.cgi/07375836), but have found no *explicit* statement that it is possible to install a binary installation elsewhere than in /usr/local/mysql. Some sentences in the `Installing ...' document *imply* that it *is* possible: "1. Pick the directory under which you want to unpack the distribution, and move into it. In the example below, we unpack the distribution under '/usr/local' and create a directory '/usr/local/mysql into which MySQL is installed"; and: "8. If you would like to use 'mysqlaccess' and have the MySQL distribution in some non-standard place, you must change the location where 'mysqlaccess' expects to find the 'mysql' client. Edit the 'bin/mysqlaccess' script at approximately line 18.".
I'd like to see an explicit statement that it is possible to install a binary distribution of MySQL in some non-standard place, or not, as the case might be. If it *is* possible, I'd like to see full instructions for doing this. The reason for my uncertainty is that I can see that the script bin/safe_mysqld is full of '/usr/local/mysql' directory paths. Either (1) it is only possible to install a binary distribution in some non-standard place only if a symbolic link '/usr/local/mysql' exists to that place, or (2) there is some not-fully-explained procedure for installing MySQL in a non-standard-place, or (3) it is only possible to install MySQL in a non-standard-place when built from source. My guess is that only (1) and (3) are right. Am I correct? I'd like (2) to be possible. If so, are there instructions for doing that? -- John A. Murdie Experimental Officer (Software) Department of Computer Science University of York England --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
