On 26 Jan, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'd like to see an explicit statement that it is possible to install a > binary distribution of MySQL in some non-standard place, or not, as the > case might be. If it *is* possible, I'd like to see full instructions > for doing this.
Thanks to the two people who sent me a reply: Jeremy Zawodny and Paul DuBois. Jeremy thought it was possible without a /usr/local/mysql link, and I recall (I subsequently lost his E-mail by accident) Paul thought it was not. (I hope that I've not misrepresented either of you - please correct me if I have!) I decided that it was probably simpler just to build from source - I'm on a Solaris 2.8 system - and so it proved to be. I was careful to use the recommended configure options. I found that I had to build in the installation directory - `make install' didn't copy the `scripts' sub-directory to the installation directory, for instance, when (in my first attempt) I unpacked the source in one directory (the build directory) and configured for another (the installation directory). For my second and successful build I made the build and installation directories the same. I can't find, however, any documentation of a command to clean the build files (e.g. `configure', `INSTALL-SOURCE' etc.) from the build/installation directory. Is there a `make tidy' or something similar? (`make clean' looks as if it would delete the executables!) -- John A. Murdie Experimental Officer (Software) Department of Computer Science University of York England --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
