On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 03:32 PM, pkeidesis wrote:
depends upon this software (for example, you might want to install something that depends upon MySQL to configure itself) then it would require the source tree and your configure settings for the original software.Not at all - that's precisely what the mysql_config utility is for, and the reason that the DBD::mysql install needs to find it. You run it, and it prints the configure settings that were used to compile that copy of MySQL.
I've *never*, in five+ years of building, installing and maintaining MySQL and various related tools on a variety of UNIX systems, found a tool that needed the MySQL source tree to compile properly.
sherm--
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