On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Bruce Martin wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am new to the list so forgive me if this was just discussed. I am 
> trying to set up PERL under apache to use a mysql database. When I try 
> to install the dbd from cpan I get this message:
> 
> Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL 
> line 174.

This means that your mysql_config is not in your PATH, so Makefile.PL is unable 
to find it. Makefile.PL needs mysql_config so that it knows where to find 
libraries and what compile-time options were used when building the mysql 
client 
libraries. 

Rudy

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