Re: I can't get no satisfaction (DBD-mysql-2.9003 on HPUX 11.11)

[Jochen Wiedmann]

Simon Taylor wrote:

> Naturally, the *last* thing I want to do is to have to compile the MySQL 
> client libraries from source on an architecture as foreign (to me) as HPUX 
> 11.11, this seems an incredibly involved (and error-prone) step to undertake 
> just to get perl talking to MySQL.

In contrary, this is the *first* thing you should consider. Recompiling
the client is by no means "error-prone" or the like. It is simply
configure, make and make install.

If you care for existing binaries, there is no reason why you should
not have a second client library in another location.


Jochen