On Dec 14, 2015, at 5:15 AM, Robert Chalmers <rob...@chalmers.com.au> wrote: > Because yesterday I archived the existing perl binaries in /usr/bin, and put > links to /opt/local/bin/perl*
don't do that. > So obviously what happened was this. > The macports perl wanted to talk to macports mysql - and couldn’t. It’s not > even running. A different mysql is running. So macports perl5-22 relies on > having macports mysql installed in the /opt hierarchy somewhere. no, it just has a default path (that used to be correct, and now isn't for your particular setup). > So now I have to figure out if it’s worth moving to macports mysql, and > how??? so then I can hopefully also switch perl versions…. or just leave > well enough alone. just configure your scripts to start up with the perl interpreter that you want (change the #! line), and configure your connection string to point to the mysql that you want it to connect to (http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-mysql/lib/DBD/mysql.pm - look for mysql_socket) -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- dl...@geeklair.net ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
