Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al [SUCCESS]

2004-07-17 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 16, 2004, at 11:15 PM, Adam wrote: Your concerns are understood. Actually, I created the database tempdb sometime earlier (it's inline with a best practice at my company). The user 'tmp' and password 'XX' are fabrications. The real user and password I used are different; however, the

Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al [SUCCESS]

2004-07-16 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 15, 2004, at 9:51 AM, Adam wrote: My test (make test) still failed (only returned a 5.86% pass). No guarantees without seeing the test results, of course, but the most likely cause of the failures - especially given that your own test script succeeded - was the testdb and testuser options

Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al [SUCCESS]

2004-07-16 Thread Adam
Sherm, Your concerns are understood. Actually, I created the database tempdb sometime earlier (it's inline with a best practice at my company). The user 'tmp' and password 'XX' are fabrications. The real user and password I used are different; however, the account has `all` permissions to the

Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-15 Thread Bill Birkett
For one reason or another, I've decided to install DBI/DBD on my laptop. In attempting to do that, I've run across a few problems and questions. Here are the steps I followed to install mysql, DBI, and DBD::mysql successfully. I'm running OS X 10.3.4 on a PowerBook, and did this install just a

Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 15, 2004, at 8:15 AM, Bill Birkett wrote: 5. Now, you can use CPAN to compile and install 'DBD::mysql'. Type the command 'install DBD::mysql' as with DBI. The software will compile successfully (after first compiling some prerequisites), and pass most of its tests. But the process will

Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-14 Thread Chris Devers
Wow you sent a lot of detail. Maybe not *quite* so much next time? :-) Still, if you want it fixed, it's better to err on the side of too much data -- as here -- rather than not enough -- my script don't work, why not. -- so I'm ok with this :) On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Adam wrote: PowerBook G4 12

Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-14 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 14, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Adam wrote: I kicked off the MakeFile.PL with the following parameters: perl Makefile.PL \ --testdb='tempdb' \ --cflags='-I/usr/local/mysql/include -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer' \ --libs='-Lgusr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lm' \ --testuser='tmp' \

Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-14 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 14, 2004, at 7:04 PM, Chris Devers wrote: Also, are you installing these CPAN modules by hand, or are you using the CPAN shell? Things are much easier with the shell -- all you have to do is a line like this: $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::mysql' and, assuming I have the

Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-14 Thread Adam
Wow you sent a lot of detail. Yes. Yes, I did :-) Maybe not *quite* so much next time? :-) Still, if you want it fixed, it's better to err on the side of too much data -- as here -- rather than not enough -- my script don't work, why not. -- so I'm ok with this :) My thought exactly. If

Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-14 Thread Adam
Ryan, (2) I'm not familiar with how UNIX software is built. Can someone direct me to a site that overviews it? Even better, can someone can briefly explain it? Briefly, no. I'd suggest one of the O'Reilly books on UNIX. Check on google for some O'Reilly UNIX or something, they have

Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-14 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 15, 2004, at 12:22 AM, Adam wrote: Why the hell wasn't that in any of the instructions I saw! Anyway to know what commands need to be run as root? Only the final make install step needs to be run as root. If you start the CPAN shell with sudo CPAN, every step will be run as root. I've