it is not really difficult (except for Perl itself, maybe ;-) ) provided you scout around for some good instructions before you set out.
I think, if you want, you can simply delete the MySQL directory under /Library, and install the binary from Mysql.com... it will go into a more "customary" location. I installed from source compiling my own with instructions from Marc's website (entropy.ch), and then installed DBI, DBD::mysql without any problem.
good luck
Big City Baby wrote:
Sadly enough, I didn't pick /Library/MySQL as the install directory. It was chosen for me by Aaron Faby's "Complete MySQL" binary installer. Prior to that install, I used Tenon Intersystems's "iTools" on another server and it installed it in a completely different place, something like /Library/WebServer/tenon/MySQL. Just thought I'd share.
Why don't they make a "Perl modules in a box" installer?
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 03:19 PM, pkeidesis wrote:
otoh, my guess is that that not installing things in their "customary" places would (might likely) cause a bunch of grief later on... other tools might expect things to be in certain places, and would need to be tweaked to look in other places.
OS 9 was different... there was no concept of paths to the (end user anyway). you clicked on things and they worked... for that matter, you could only click on things.
OS X is a lot more picky about things being where it wants them to be. I have heard of many applications that stop working or start doing voodoo if moved from their default locations.
