[ic] perl: can't resolve symbol 'mysql_init'

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mike Heins)]

Quoting Webmaster (webmaster@lynlinks.com):
> 
> 
> > Quoting Rick Eicher II (rick@pbol.net):
> > > >
> > > > I like the way you think...systematically.  I agree with your
> > > > process here. Do you know where are those test scripts are?
> > > > And we'll try them.
> > > >
> > >
> > > FYI try not to top post on this list.
> > >
> > > The install commands from the perl shell might have already run these
> > > test, but might not have. Anyway down load the tarballs for DBI/DBD they
> > > should be in there. It has been a while since I have done this.
> > >
> > > Once you have the tests running you can go to the next step. Which is
> > > getting Interchange to know where test modules are at. You might check
> > > to see what your @INC is set to. If the DBI/DBD modules are not in there
> > > then there is little to no chance Interchange will find it. Interchange
> > > will look in part of it own directory and the @INC directories for any
> > > perl modules it needs to run. If I am mistake please correct me.
> > >
> >
> > I don't think anyone has talked about the obvious here. Are you sure
> > that Interchange is running with the same version of Perl you are testing
> > with?
> >
> > Try restarting IC with:
> >
> > perl interchange/bin/interchange -restart
> >
> >
> 
> no, that didn't work...same message.
> 

Then you undoubtedly have a bad MySQL package or a bad Perl installation,
providing "perl -MDBD::mysql" just hangs and does not give an error.

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Mike Heins
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