it's always the same. i bang my head against something for days, finally get around to asking about it here, and then fix it a few minutes later.
in this case the answer (for me at least) was to install DBD::mysql directly instead of using the outdated version that's in the Msql-mysql-bundle. The version currently on CPAN fails to build, but if you go back to an earlier version (2.9002 is the last that is reported to work with darwin) then it builds fine, fails three tests that I couldn't even find, and appears to just work.
this does mean that it can't be done through CPAN.pm. Download from here instead:
http://search.cpan.org/~rudy/DBD-mysql-2.9002/
best
will
ps. I have applied Mr Moy's change to /System/Library/...blah.../Config.pm, which presumably helped.
On 23 Nov 2003, at 19:12, william ross wrote:
hello,<snip>
Having somehow managed to install DBD::mysql on 10.3 without running into the obstacles that others have described here - which is always worrying - I now find that it doesn't quite work. most functions are fine, but it fails to get a correct last_insert_id: instead it returns zero, the value for a failure-to-insert.
