[ale] php/mysql install hell

[Joseph A Knapka]

Jim Philips wrote:
> 
> I have a RedHat 7.2 distro. I'm trying to upgrade Apache/PHP/MySQL.
> MySQL refuses to compile on my system.

How so? What sort of errors do you get? (I've never built MySQL
before, but what the hell, it might be something simple causing
your problem.)

> So, I installed the latest
> version using rpm. So far, so good. But when you configure PHP for
> compilation, it wants to know where MySQL is to compile in support. The
> assumption is that all the pieces of MySQL are under one directory. But
> RedHat, in its wisdom, scatters the pieces in different places. The
> client programs are in /usr/bin. The headers are in /usr/include/mysql.
> And the data files are in /var/lib/mysql. Given this, I see no way to
> compile MySQL support into PHP.

If you just need to unify all the MySQL stuff under a single
directory, create one and then within it, create symbolic links
to all the MySQL stuff.

Other packages that I've used that need to know the location of
some third package to configure themselves, usually want the
/source/ directory, incidentally.

Cheers,
-- Joe
"I should like to close this book by sticking out any part of my neck
 which is not yet exposed, and making a few predictions about how the
 problem of quantum gravity will in the end be solved."
 --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"

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