Re: Making a prefixed install / hard-wired global configuration files?

2007-03-25 Thread Nick Hill
Hello Jeremy Thank you for the pointer. After make clean, re-configured, re-compiled then tried, but /path/to/bin/mysql --help still shows /etc/my.cnf as the default file. Jeremy Cole wrote: Hi Nick, This should do it: --sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc] Reg

Re: Making a prefixed install / hard-wired global configuration files?

2007-03-25 Thread Jeremy Cole
Hi Nick, This should do it: --sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc] Regards, Jeremy Nick Hill wrote: Is there an easy way to build MySQL client library, server and start-up script so that /etc/my.cnf is ignored? I need to build client and server so that it in no

Making a prefixed install / hard-wired global configuration files?

2007-03-25 Thread Nick Hill
Is there an easy way to build MySQL client library, server and start-up script so that /etc/my.cnf is ignored? I need to build client and server so that it in no way interacts with the global system install, and build programs against that client library which also don't interact with the glob