FreeBSD Port: mediawiki-1.5.8

[Alan Ridgeway]

Follow up.

I read the release notes and I saw the following.

PostgreSQL:
  The table definitions for PostgreSQL install are out of date. PostgreSQL
  support may return in later releases, pending appropriate patches.


Looks like I will need to install the port for mysql.

Alan

Alan Ridgeway wrote:

>Hello
>
>FreeBSD 6.0 (Fresh install).
>
>Mediawiki 1.5.8 from ports using the command portinstall.
>
>During the setup it asked if I want to use PostgreSQL. I chose to do so
>since
>I prefer the features of PostgreSQL. Once the entire set of dependent ports
>have been downloaded and installed and I got Apache 1.3.34 working with
>my DNS,
>the web page offered me to setup MediaWiki. When I choose to do so, I
>got the following error:
>
>
>  MediaWiki 1.5.8 installation
>
>/Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation
>problems./
>
>
>    Checking environment...
>
>
>      *Warning*: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library
>      '/usr/local/lib/php/20020429/mysql.so' - Cannot open
>      "/usr/local/lib/php/20020429/mysql.so" in
>      */usr/local/www/data-dist/mediawiki/install-utils.inc* on line *17*
>      Could not load MySQL driver! Please compile php --with-mysql or
>      install the mysql.so module.
>
>
>Hence it would seem that the choice to use PostgreSQL in the package is
>not working correctly.
>I believe I can fix the problem for myself(not new to FreeBSD or Linux,
>but I am to PostgreSQL and Mediawiki).
>
>If you have an easy fix for this, I will gladly upgrade my port.
>
>Thanks
>
>  
>

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