Re: [Refdb-users] Redhat testing/installation woes

[Jason S. <st...@co...>]

I finally had time to try and get this working again tonight. I re-did  
the libdbi framework, and now am trying to reinstall the drivers  
themselves. When I type:
./configure --with-mysql
Things seem to go well, but then the configuration turns sour:
checking for libdbi framework... yes: headers in /usr/local/include
checking for MySQL support... no
configure: error: Invalid MySQL directory - include files not found.

This is just what happened before. From this it looks like libdbi was  
installed correctly, but that MySQL is not? This is a standard MySQL  
installation on RedHat. I know MySQL works, as I'm able to login, make  
users, &c., and use the MySQL installation of Movable Type, so I'm  
fairly certain that things re well with MySQL.

Am I missing something? Do I need to run configure with additional  
options, and if so, what were they?

Thanks, Jason


On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 11:01 US/Pacific, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Alan Anderson writes:
>> First, you did also download the dbi driver files for MySQL, right?   
>> libdbi requires the drivers to
>> actually communicate with the database.
>>
>
> I'm afraid this can't be pointed out often enough. When RefDB 0.9.2
> was released, the current libdbi version contained the MySQL and
> PostgreSQL drivers. This is reflected in the RefDB manual as
> well. However, the current version of libdbi provides only the
> framework, and we moved all drivers to the libdbi-drivers project. The
> next version of the RefDB manual will of course be updated to reflect
> this. It will be an intermittent problem I reckon. Moreover, refdbd as
> of 0.9.3 will list the available libdbi drivers at startup. The
> problem and the solution will then be way more obvious.
>
> And yes, while we're at it: <mantra>You'll have to specify the
> driver(s) on the libdbi-drivers configure command line, otherwise
> nothing will be built</mantra> ;-)
>
>> Second, I discovered that RedHat does not seem to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH  
>> environment variable.  I had
>> to set this explicitly in my startup script to make RefDB work since  
>> the libdbi files are not in
>> /usr/lib.  This probably isn't you're problem if you don't have the  
>> actual shared library files.
>>
>
> Actually LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or an appropriate entry in ld.so.conf) is
> required to find libdbi.so. This in turn either uses a compiled-in
> path or one provided by the application using the library to locate
> the drivers. That is, the directory holding the drivers need not be
> listed in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> regards,
> Markus
>
> --  
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