In attempting to install Bugzilla on a Redhat 9 system, with MySQL 4.0.13 RPMs installed I ran into some trouble. I wanted to take the easy way out and use 'perl -MCPAN -e "install Bundle::Bugzilla" to make sure I had all the right perl modules to get bugzilla up and running, but for some reason DBD::mysql wouldn't compile, the problem appears to have been related to the default LANG setting on RH9 which wasn't handled well by the DBD::mysql build process. The solution is simply"unset LANG; perl Makefile.PL; make"
I was able to track this down in the perl.dbi.users newsgroup, here I have also put the complete text of the posting in the extended part of this entry entry.
http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.dbi.users/17822:
Newsgroups: perl.dbi.users
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:29:24 +0200 (CEST)
To: Rudy Lippan
Yesssss!!!!!! It works!!! Thank you very much!! But, finally, what is it the wrong side? Is it the perl-RH9 version? However some packages did compile well even if the LANG var was setted. [on my machine I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8] With the perl-RH8 version I hadn't this problems!
Regards, Marco Guazzone
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Rudy Lippan wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Marco Guazzone wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I've just installed RH 9 on my laptop; then I've downloaded the mysql > > 4.0.12 binary distribution from www.mysql.com and the DBI package and > > installed them. OK! > > Then I've tried to install DBD::mysql 2.1026 but I've got these errors: > > > perl Makefile.PL > > ... > > > make > > Makefile:89: *** missing separator. Stop. > > Try this: > > unset LANG; perl Makefile.PL; make. > > > Later, > > Rudy > >