MySQL 4 and Perl problem

[Christopher Hicks]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Thor List wrote:

> I just installed MySQL 4 and discovered to my surprise that the Perl DBD
> module does not run, because the new MySQL version comes with
> libmysqlclient.so.12 instead of libmysqlclient.so.10 and all the
> problems that comes with this like other so files that depend on 10 vs.
> 12, etc.

Reinstalling DBD::mysql will let it recompile against the proper
libmysqlclient.so.  My bugzilla is using the off-the-shelf DBD::mysql with
MySQL 4.0 on RedHat 8 without any problems.

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