Re: DBD::mysql on OSX 10.6 install for remote access???

[m. allan noah]

you must install at least some sort of mysql client libraries and
development headers on the system.

allan

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:54 PM, ivowel <ivo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am running the standard OSX perl distribution, which is 5.10.0 (no
> kidding).  I believes it comes with DBI installed, but I reinstalled
> it from CPAN anyway.   then I wanted to proceed to install the mysql
> module for DBI.  there was already a posting a while back that this
> generates a lot of compiler warnings.  I got the same warnings when I
> did the desktop install.
>
> worse was yet to come:  I wanted to install this module on my notebook
> computer, on which mysql has not been installed.  (I want to write a
> perl program pn my notebook to connect over the network to the
> desktop, which runs mysql.)
>
>  CPAN.pm: Going to build C/CA/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.013.tar.gz
>
> Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL
> line 82.
>
> Cannot find the file 'mysql_config'! Your execution PATH doesn't seem
> not contain the path to mysql_config. Resorting to guessed values!
> Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL
> line 464.
> Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where
> mysql_config is located
> Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL
> line 464.
> Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where
> mysql_config is located
> Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL
> line 464.
> Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where
> mysql_config is located
>
>
> PLEASE NOTE:
>
> For 'make test' to run properly, you must ensure that the
> database user 'ivo' can connect to your MySQL server
> and has the proper privileges that these tests require such
> as 'drop table', 'create table', 'drop procedure', 'create procedure'
> as well as others.
>
> mysql> grant all privileges on test.* to 'ivo'@'localhost' identified
> by 's3kr1t';
>
> You can also optionally set the user to run 'make test' with:
>
> perl Makefile.pl --testuser=username
>
> Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL
> line 464.
> Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where
> mysql_config is located
> Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL
> line 464.
> Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where
> mysql_config is located
> Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL
> line 464.
> Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where
> mysql_config is located
> Failed to determine directory of mysql.h. Use
>
>  perl Makefile.PL --cflags=-I<dir>
>
> to set this directory. For details see the INSTALL.html file,
> section "C Compiler flags" or type
>
>  perl Makefile.PL --help
>
>
> how does one get remote mysql access into perl?
>
> /iaw
>
>



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