John Myles White » DBD::MySQL Mac OS X Tiger Perl http://www.johnmyleswhite.com "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:36:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 DBD::MySQL On Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.10 With Perl 5.8.6 http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2007/09/04/dbdmysql-on-mac-os-x-tiger-10410-with-perl-586/ http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2007/09/04/dbdmysql-on-mac-os-x-tiger-10410-with-perl-586/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:34:19 +0000 John Myles White http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2007/09/04/dbdmysql-on-mac-os-x-tiger-10410-with-perl-586/ My attempts to work this weekend on updates to a MySQL database-driven CGI application I wrote a few years ago were all delayed by a recurring problem during the installation of the DBD::MySQL module on my Powerbook. I finally solved the problem a few minutes ago after reading several articles, particularly one from JayAllen.org. In the interests of saving others’ time, here is the solution I came upon to getting DBD::MySQL to run on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.10 with Perl 5.8.6.

The first set of problems I had were caused by the makefile for the CPAN module trying to access a non-existent library directory, /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql. To solve this problem, I created a symbolic link to the missing directory:

1

sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql

After this, I got a new batch of errors about password problems during the test phase. The module was attempting to log in as root to the MySQL server without giving a password. The solution was to temporarily open the MySQL server with root requiring no password:

1

sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables -u root &

These two steps, discovered after considerable bug-tracking, solved all of my problems. Hopefully this can save other Tiger users a great deal of time.

]]> http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2007/09/04/dbdmysql-on-mac-os-x-tiger-10410-with-perl-586/feed/ 0