PHP 4.0 Bug #4678: Wont Connect to MySQL using any other port/socket/host then the default

From: darren@php3hosting.com Operating system: Linux Slackware PHP version: 4.0.0 Release PHP Bug Type: MySQL related Bug description: Wont Connect to MySQL using any other port/socket/host then the default $mysql_link = mysql_connect('localhost:/tmp/mysql.fred','indigo','colour'); # open MySQL connection Will fail. It will try the local host but ignore the socket. I have tried using 127.0.0.1/the domain name and a port number. Every combination I could think of but it still won't work. One solution I was give was :- Copy file libmysqlclient.so.6 from /your/path/to/mysql/lib/mysql to /usr/local/lib But that didn't work. Although PHP3 works fine. My Configure line is :- './configure' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' '--enable-track-vars''--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' php.ini was unchanged. Every user has a MySQL instance with a different port number on shared IP address's PHP3 works fine but PHP won't talk to the unix socket.. Regards Darren