Re: Building RC1

Hi, Richard Lynch wrote: > > I tried and failed to compiled RC1 this morning : first with an RPM > > version of MySQL-3.22.32, then with a source version of MySQL-3.23.xx . > > Both broke on the libmysqlclient.so Just installed the whole thing this morning: RPMS from MySQL-3.22.32 (not from RedHat, but from www.mysql.org), with 4.0.2RC1. I did not find any problem. > > > > > One or two make all install worked but then Apache wasn't able to load > > the module. > > Oh yeah. I had that also. > > RedHat puts stuff in weird places, and PHP and MySQL put stuff in normal > places, and it breaks. > > You'll need to copy your libmysqlclient.so from where-ever it is to > where-ever RedHat wants it. Actually, you need to track down the symbolic > links to whatever is the *real* file and copy that, or make yet another > symbolic link to it. > > I'm not sure how feasible it is to make PHP configure predict where RedHat > is going to expect things to go -- I suspect RedHat keeps changing it around > in response to complaints, although their web-site claims they are following > a "standard"... > > At any rate, it's been a long-standing and/or recurrent problem, and if the > installer can't figure out RedHat's plot, the only option is to document the > hell out of it. -- Derick Rethans JDI Media Solutions H.v.Tussenbroekstraat 1 6952 BL Dieren The Netherlands e-mail: d.rethans@jdimedia.nl http://www.jdimedia.nl/