Christopher Singley wrote:
> Whoa, don't everybody pile on at once.
>
> To get this to work, I needed to have installed just the SUNWmysql5 package,
> which is MySQL-5.0 that includes libmysqlclient_r.so.15 which we need to make
> mysql-python work.
>
> To hack the library search path & make it work for Python-2.4, I just made a
> soft link:
> cd /usr/mysql && ln -s 5.0/lib lib
>
> Python-2.6 wants an even more impatient prefix:
> cd /lib && ln -s /usr/mysql/5.0/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.15
>
I guess, I can file a bug within mysql so that they can deliver this
symbolic link as part of MySQL package itself.
- Sriram
> That first symlink makes me somewhat nervous; It looks like an upgrade booby
> trap. Seems pretty hard to get in trouble with the hack for Python 2.6,
> though.
>
