[thelist] Help! Installing MySQL 4.1 on FreeBSD

[Hassan Schroeder]

Ken Moore wrote:

> #cd /usr/src/mysql-standard-4.1.1-alpha-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz
?? you can't "change directory" to a tar file, but...
> # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql 
> --localstatedir=/usr/local/mysql/data 
> --with-unix-socket-path=/usr/local/mysql/tmp/mysql.socket
> 
> That worked fine. The make 
> mysql-standard-4.1.1-alpha-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz says that it is "up to 
> date".

.. and you don't usually run 'make' with a tarfile name as the
target, so I'm a little puzzled by what you've actually done.

Did you run `make` and `make install` successfully?

If so, you should have the new executables in /usr/local/mysql/bin;
are they there?

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