Getting Bugzila to run (was RE: [Fwd: ibm and bugzilla])

[David Miller]

Jason Pyeron wrote:
> On RHEL the RPMs get real prissy, if you mess with php-mysql or perl-mysql 
> stuff, that being said, they require libmysqlclient.so.10, not .so so they 
> are tied to mysql 3.23.x specifically.
> 
> you can 
> 1) hack it up it to get it to work
> 2) or you can obliterate the rpms and use another distro's on top of it
> 3) use some compat rpms, mysql has on for 4.0.21, but not the 4.1.12, we 
> have made some in house to get BZ to work out of the box, also MySQL has 
> RHEL version just a few lines down on the DL page.

Just grab the SRPM for perl-DBD-mysql and edit the spec file to change
the dependency from mysql-devel to MySQL-devel (just a case change) then
rebuild it.  It works.

If you're not anal about using RPMs, it's much easier to just use CPAN
to install DBD::mysql from source.

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