On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:11:28PM -0500, Rudy Lippan wrote: > 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.
Couldn't Makefile.PL detect this situation and give a clear message? Tim.
