Damjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there any at all chance that this will work >> with the proper configs or should I go ahead >> and beg the host for an installation ? > It seems to me very unlikely that a program compiled for FreeBSD would link > to a library compiled for Debian Linux which in turn was linked to a Debian > libmysql but now has to work with the FreeBSD libmysql... I just don't > beleive you can make this work.
Arrgh. Damjan, you *really* should have left enough context for those reading what you have to say to figure out what that "this" was. I have as yet to see the original on my news server, so I chased it down on Google groups. For the interested, the OP (Stanley Kitching), wants to use a python-mysqldb module on his web host running FreeBSD. They don't have the that installed, so he tried getting the Debian binary distrubtion of the library to work, and failed. He's wondering if this is at all possible. Answer: yes, it might (key word - might) be made to work. Linux shared libraries have been made to work with native applications on FreeBSD before. I don't have the details, but would expect you'd have to install large chunks of a Debian system to make this work. If you really want to do this, let me know and I'll chase the details down for you. However, that's the wrong way to do this. First step - ask your hosting service to install databases/py-MySQLdb. That's the Python MySQLdb port in the FreeBSD ports tree. Installing it should be trivial. If they won't, I'd seriously consider changing services. I can recommend a FreeBSD-based hosting service that will install pretty much anything in the ports tree. The next thing to try is getting the MySQLdb pkg for FreeBSD. A pkg is the format that FreeBSD uses for binary distributions. Look in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/<ARCH>/packages-<REL>/databases. Supported architectures are alpha, amd64, i386, ia64 and sparc64. Supported releases (for i386, anyway) include the last release version of FreeBSD 4, 5 and 6, the stable branch of 4 and 6, the development and stable branches of 5, and 7-current. Most of those should be for Python 2.4. The one I checked had MySQLdb 1.2.0 and 1.2.1c3 (a development branch). If that fails (because they don't have a binary for the right combination of OS and Python), get the version of the os (use the command "uname -pr") and the version of Python, and ask here and on [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if someone with an appropriate installation will build you a binary. I'll do it if I have the appropriate version of FreeBSD installed. Or install FreeBSD on a spare system and build it yourself - once you get FreeBSD installed, the rest is trivial, and I'll be glad to provide pointers for that. If all that fails, *then* it's time to look into getting the debian version of the library to work. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
