Re: Back to mysql

2010-12-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/14/2010 8:57 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I remember working with this a while back (years back actually) and there was a separate mysql package that somebody put together (probably from cygports). I just would have thought that by now it would have been put into Cygwin in a more official mann

Re: Back to mysql

2010-12-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/14/2010 04:21 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: Cygwin Ports, at http://sourceware.org/cygwinports. A quite amazing repository of additional Cygwin packages, all maintained by Yaakov. Thanks to recent improvements to Cygwin's setup.exe by Jon Turney, the timestamp hack shown on the Ports website is

Re: Back to mysql

2010-12-14 Thread Andy Koppe
On 14 December 2010 03:37, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> You can get mysql, libmysql*, perl-DBI, and perl-DBD-mysql from Ports. > > Never been to "Ports". Can you elaborate? Cygwin Ports, at http://sourceware.org/cygwinports. A quite amazing repository of additional Cygwin packages, all maintained by Y

Re: Back to mysql

2010-12-14 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Andrew DeFaria was heard to say: On 12/13/2010 09:47 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: mysql_config is YA foo-config script as included in some -devel packages. Can you translate that into English? What's a "YA foo-config" script? YA: yet another. A strong indication that mysql_config isn't the

Re: Back to mysql

2010-12-13 Thread Maurice Mengel
it's likely cygports, see http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ I didn't check if those packages are there though On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >  On 12/13/2010 09:47 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> >> mysql_config is YA foo-config script as included in some -devel package

Re: Back to mysql

2010-12-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/13/2010 09:47 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: mysql_config is YA foo-config script as included in some -devel packages. Can you translate that into English? What's a "YA foo-config" script? Which -devel packages does it appear in? You can get mysql, libmysql*, perl-DBI, and perl-DBD-mysql f

Re: Back to mysql

2010-12-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 18:52 -0500, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I'm trying to port a Perl script of mine that uses DBI and DBD::mysql > to update a database running on another, Linux, server. I have been able > to install DBI (cpan DBI) and get it to compile, but I cannot get > DBD::mysql to install.

Back to mysql

2010-12-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I'm trying to port a Perl script of mine that uses DBI and DBD::mysql to update a database running on another, Linux, server. I have been able to install DBI (cpan DBI) and get it to compile, but I cannot get DBD::mysql to install. When I try I get Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or d