Re: [cobalt-users] Installing modules to allow Perl to access MySQL

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 6/21/00 10:01 AM, Steven Werby at steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I am trying to get a RaQ2 to allow Perl to access MySQL databases.  I've tried
> numerous installs of the DBI and DBD files without luck - both from Cobalt's
> RPMs and
> cpan.org's tar files.  I have a test Perl script, but I'm not sure what the
> problem
> is.  MySQL was compiled from source instead of using the RPMs and has been
> working
> great for months.  I can share the error messages I've gotten, but there have
> been so
> many different ones under several different config/installs I'm not sure it
> will
> help.

That's strange, because I got it working pretty easily.  I just used it to
benchmark the performance of the Raq2's compared to our other boxes (using
the crashme script that shipped with MySQL).

I simply followed the instructions that came with that benchmark script.

-k