MAJOR MySQL on Solaris problems

[jnutter]

Hey All,

Here's my situation: I need to get PHP4 and MySQL installed on a sparc station running Solaris 2.5.1 and Netscape Enterprise Web Server.

Strangely enough, the PHP install seems to have gone through just fine (thanks to Brian Hager!). However, no matter what I have tried to do with MySQL (tried numerous versions etc). I get the following error:

ld.so.1: ./my: fatal: libmysqlclient.so.6: open failed: No such file or directory

Now, the MySQL manual talks about this error and gives a few solutions (mostly just making sure this file is findable in the path). My problem: this file is never getting installed! Every time I go through this I end up with a libmysqlclient.so.10 NOT .so.6!!

I have tried many crazy hack attempts to fix this.. including tracking down this libmysqlclient.so.6 file from another install and copying it over (which then just results in a segmentation fault).

I have tried re-installing MySQL from scratch using an older version (3.22.32).

I have tried compiling MySQL with various different options... no go.

I am very new to Solaris (this is my first attempt at doing anything in there)... and my FINAL FINAL deadline was yesterday so I'm in some pretty hot water here until I get this working. Any help would be HUGELY appreciated.

• nutter

[Anon]

Solaris is tricky -- I have had major problems that made no sense on Solaris 8. You aught to go with a binary release for this platform if you are new to it. You will still need Gnu Tar because Solaris tar is seriously broken; you might pick up gmake and gcc while you are at it. Good luck!

[Anon]

hi!
make a symbolic link of libmysqlclient.so.10 in the /lib directory. =)
have fun!

jane =)