On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Charlie Garrison wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> On 25/9/07 at 2:55 PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster
> <jeremiah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, that link looks good. You can grep your Makefile.PL and
>> compare your path to the mysql header files to where they exist on
>> your system. I bet that is the problem, make can't find your mysql
>> header files.
>
> Except that mysql header files have nothing to with compiling DBI.
> You're thinking about DBD::mysql.
Good point. I just assumed that we were talking about mysql here.
>
> I suggest bypassing CPAN and running make manually. Use CPAN as
> shortcut to get that directory though:
>
> $ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'shell' (or just sudo cpan)
> cpan> look DBI
> DBI-1.59$ perl Makefile.PL
> DBI-1.59$ make
> DBI-1.59$ exit
>
> When you run the 'make' command you will get some output that
> should explain what the problem is.
The way described above is the right way to go - it is the logical
next step.
Jeremiah
