[ale] php/mysql install hell

[Jim Philips]

When I install MySQL with rpm, executables are in /usr/bin. The headers
are in /usr/include/mysql. The data directory is /var/lib/mysql and yet
other parts are in /usr/share/mysql. When I look at phpinfo() it
indicates that PHP thinks MySQL is in /usr/local. I don't know if htis
is significant or not. But any PHP script that calls on the database
will seg fault. So, configuring --with-mysql=/usr hasn't worked for me
yet.


On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 21:13, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On 6 Jan 2002, 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. 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.
> 
> They are.  They're under /usr.
> 
> ./configure --with-mysql=/usr --all-your-other-options
> 
> works just fine
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Actually, the various Linux standards mandate that Red Hat and all other
> distributions do this.  If PHP can't handle it, it's broken.
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
> 
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