From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 15:24:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908B437B423 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 15:23:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g42MNaU03015; Thu, 2 May 2002 18:23:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD1BDA2.3000904@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 18:28:50 -0400 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Defryn, Guy" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: mysql install problem References: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F37EE@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Defryn, Guy wrote: > I have been trying to install mysql on my freebsd box and it does not seem to work. I cannot use the ports on this box > > I have followed everything step by step as described in three books/manuals > > > > -I downloaded mysql-3.23.49-unknown-freebsdelf4.4-i386.tar.gz from the mysqlsite and copy it to /tmp directory > > -I ran tar tzvf mysql-3.23.49-unknown-freebsdelf4.4-i386.tar.gz and a directory with the same name gets created > > -According to my manuals the following steps are to run ./ configure -prefix=/usr/local/mysql and than the commands make and make install. > > > > The configure scripts run but a /usr/local/mysql does not get created and it won't let me run make and make install. Gonna need some error messages in order to give any kind of reasonable help. Before that, however, do the instructions say that you need gmake? If so, install gmake first, then use gmake instead of make. > Does any know how can get it to go? Also how can I delete non-empty directories? Why not just use /stand/sysinstall to install a precompiled package? Much easier. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message