Re: Installing DBD::mysql??

sanket vaidya wrote:
> I cannot instead module using ppm or MCPAN (office proxy wont allow me
to do
> this) & I have never installed a perl module  manually. I am installing
> DBD::mysql module. When I get into the module directory & type "perl
> makefile.pl"  I get error as below:
>  
> Failed to determine directory of  mysql.h. Use "perl makefile.PL
> -cflags=-I<dir> to set this directory.


It looks like you need the mysql development libraries which provide 
mysql.h.

You'll have to find out how your operating system provides these 
libraries and install them.  On a system with yum, you might issue the 
following command:

   yum install mysql-devel

HTH,
Josh Miller, RHCE