Commit 029a95a9 authored by terry%netscape.com's avatar terry%netscape.com

Add info about MysqlPerl stuff.

parent c176a062
......@@ -66,6 +66,27 @@ bugs database. You may have to hack the code to use "nobody"
or whatever your HTTP server is running as.
1.3 Perl
MySQL used to come with a perl module. More recent versions do
not; they count on you grabbing the DBI package from CPAN. So, if you
are installing a new version of MySQL, you will probably also need to
grab the following:
ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/TIMB/DBI-1.06.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2017.tar.gz
For Mysql support, the Msql-Mysql-modules (for 1.2017, at least)
uses DBI, so that will have to be installed first (0.93 or later).
Then, when making the Makefile for the Msql-Mysql modules, you will
be asked which DB to support. Only Mysql is necessary. Also, you
will be asked if you want to install the "MysqlPerl emulation". You
must say yes for Bugzilla to work.
This assumes, of course, that you do not have a version of "MysqlPerl"
already installed.
2. Tweaking the Tools
All scripts look in /usr/bonsaitools/bin for perl. Make
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