DBD::mysql on the Mac

Problems in the CPAN installer

This may have been fixed, but as of August 1, 2007: The CPAN installer for DBD::mysql fails due to inability to find the proper locations for various mysql configuration files. Some possible solutions are on Jay Allen's blog.

On a new Mac mini, getting this to work involved the manual rebuild described in the post, and making a symlink to the config as described in the comments.

• Typically, installing DBD* modules via the cpan shell is difficult, as tests will frequently require a connection to the database via a non-root account (that is, your real account that has permission to read, write and create databases). The stuff that Jay Allen mentioned about having to set lib and include directories should be handled properly by the perl Makefile.PL command, but aparently not in this case. Scott 13:49, 6 August 2007 (EDT)