Dan: Thank you fast reply on New Year Day.
The only reason I was trying to install the source distribution because it is supposed to be optimized!! Is binary distribution is also optimized or it makes no difference? I personally prefer binary myself. I will wait for a response before I start all over again. Thanks again. Kirti -----Original Message----- From: dan orlic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 12:07 PM To: Kirti S. Bajwa Subject: Re: Installation Question i never had much luck with the source distribution, let alone using the prefix flag. Try untarring it in /usr/local/mysql dir yourself and then continue with the ./configure make and so forth... better yet, i would untar it in a /usr/local/mysql-whatever-version and then make a soft link of mysql point to that directory, allows you to have multiple installs of mysql where all you have to change is the link and restart mysql. my humble option, go with the binary installation.... it will take you less then a couple minutes to install. hope this helps. dan Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: >I am trying to install MySQL from source distribution by following the >instructions under section: 2.3.1 Quick Source Installation Overview. >I notice that the configure state is listed as follows: >shell> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql > >which means to install the software in /usr/local/mysql. After I run this >configure statement, I do not see a folder /usr/local/mysql!! Is it correct? > >Kirti > > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
