[rt-users] Installing 1.0.2 on Sun

[Randy Millis]

Jesse wrote:

> perl -MCPAN -e'install DBI'
> first.

Ok, I did that (looks ok, but I am being verbose to see if my lack of experience has
assisted me in missing something):

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fsa# perl -MCPAN -e'install DBI'
Going to read /home/fsa/staff/rmillis/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read /home/fsa/staff/rmillis/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz

Scanning cache /home/fsa/staff/rmillis/.cpan/build for sizes

  There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.54) available!
  You might want to try
    install Bundle::CPAN
    reload cpan
  without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade
  while we are running...

Going to read /home/fsa/staff/rmillis/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
DBI is up to date.
Stime = 0.0  Utime = 10.0  RTime = 0:15  Memory = 0 Kb

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cpan> install Bundle::DBD::mysql

[...]

Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/akmisc.t                  351    1   0.28%  44
t/mysql.t                    68    1   1.47%  23
1 test skipped.
Failed 2/17 test scripts, 88.24% okay. 2/732 subtests failed, 99.73% okay.
make[1]: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/fsa/staff/rmillis/.cpan/build/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2214/mysql'
make: *** [test] Error 2
  /usr/local/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

Bundle summary: The following items seem to have had installation problems:
  Unwrapped into directory
/home/fsa/staff/rmillis/.cpan/build/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2214
Mysql DBD::mysql
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>
>
> Also, do you have mysql installed locally _including_ the headers?

I did a source install and followed the instructions to the best of my ability.
safe_mysqld is running and I can connect to the test database as root. How do I
check?;-)