That elusive mysqlclient.16

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sun Apr 18 02:11:18 UTC 2010


In the last episode (Apr 17), Gene said:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:17:37 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote
> > In the last episode (Apr 17), Gene said:
> > > Attempts to build databases/mysql55-server or php5-mysql, or
> > > php5-mysqli all stop with the following error:
> > > 
> > > Error: shared library "mysqlclient.16" does not exist
> > > 
> > > I've tried building and rebuilding mysql55-client, tried portupgrade
> > > (after portsnap) all to no avail.  Google searches found one item, and
> > > that was in Chinese.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know what port is supposed to install this share library?
> > > I'd think the file would be installed by mysql55-client, but
> > > apparently not.
> > 
> > mysql55-client installs it.  Try rebuilding mysql55-client again and
> > make sure it installs successfully.
> 
> Dan - thanks for the reply.
> 
> I did the following:
> cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql55-client
> script ../t
> make clean
> make
> make deinstall && make reinstall
> exit
> 
> Installation completed successfully.
> 
> mysqlclient.16 still cannot be found, nor does the filename occur in ../t.
> 
> Any ideas where to go next?  I can put the script output up on the web if
> you think it'll help.  It's kinda big for an email.

Script output would be useful.  Did anything at all get installed in
/usr/local/lib/mysql/ ?  If there is a libmysqlclient.so.16 file, does
"ldconfig -r | grep libmysqlclient.so.16" print anything?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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