From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 0:39:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A7737B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A1543E67 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:39:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6P7dTUd037333; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:39:29 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6P7dSTk037332; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:39:28 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:39:28 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: RDWestSr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help - Compiling MySQL-3.23.51 on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020725073928.GA37283@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3D3F3AE4.ECA4E9AC@HoTPoP.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D3F3AE4.ECA4E9AC@HoTPoP.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:40:20PM -0400, RDWestSr wrote: [...[ > First question... > i had the port 3.23.47 running fine... but > i'm installing and configuring apache/ssl/php with mysql > so mysql needs to be installed in /usr/local/mysql > > the freebsd port does not install to /usr/local/mysql If you install *everything* using the ports system, apache/ssl/php et al, all your paths will come out correct - even if they aren't the default for a particular package. Trust the ports. Otherwise you'll be trying to tweak the config stuff forever (as you've noticed). -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If everything's under control, you're going too slow" - Mario Andretti To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message