Re: [Slashcode-general] Almost installed Bender-1.1.4

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 10:30 +0100 2001.02.26, Jean-Philippe Moins wrote:
>Chris Nandor <pu...@po...> wrote:
>> >
>> >Perhaps you want to add a note to the Requirements section in INSTALL.
>>
>> What is the "almost"?  Is that referring to the problem with PREFIX?  If
>> so, then great, since that should be unrelated to "install".  I'll add the
>> note to INSTALL.
>
>I confirm install v. 4.x seems to be required. Here is the "almost":
>
>Now  bin/install-slashsite is failing. Basically, the trace deals with
>all perl Slash/DB files.
>	=> I tracked that DB.pm gets driver name '0' instead of 'mysql'; I
>hardcoded it, so that I could install completely.
>	=> Now my slash site is running, except slashd fails to start
>(complains about its inability to connect to the DB)
>
>I feel a lot of pain using DBIx::Password. I happen to be stupid, and
>the configuration dialog of DBIx:Password is really cryptic to me
>(besides, I don't understand the need for this module, anyway).
>It installs ok and all, but Slash seems to be unable to connect. (I am
>not networking anything, and I install as root. Older Slash codes run
>ok).

Yes, all of your pain appears to be regarding DBIx::Password.  Yes, I think
we could use better documentation for it.  Maybe Brian can give some?

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