Re^2: Using Perlbrew with debian Perl packages like libdbd-mysql

[nysus]

cpanm (App::cpanminus) 1.7043 on perl 5.014004 built for x86_64-linux
Work directory is /home/steve/.cpanm/work/1513190088.24934
You have make /usr/bin/make
You have LWP 6.29
You have /bin/tar: tar (GNU tar) 1.29
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gp
+l.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
You have /usr/bin/unzip
Searching DBD::mysql () on cpanmetadb ...
--> Working on DBD::mysql
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MICHIELB/DBD-mysql-4.043.
+tar.gz
-> OK
Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.043.tar.gz
Entering DBD-mysql-4.043
Checking configure dependencies from META.json
Checking if you have Data::Dumper 0 ... Yes (2.130_02)
Checking if you have DBI 1.609 ... Yes (1.637)
Configuring DBD-mysql-4.043
Running Makefile.PL
Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL li
+ne 88.

Cannot find the file 'mysql_config'! Your execution PATH doesn't seem
not contain the path to mysql_config. Resorting to guessed values!


PLEASE NOTE:

For 'make test' to run properly, you must ensure that the
database user 'steve' can connect to your MySQL server
and has the proper privileges that these tests require such
as 'drop table', 'create table', 'drop procedure', 'create procedure'
as well as others.

mysql> grant all privileges on test.* to 'steve'@'localhost' identifie
+d by 's3kr1t';

You can also optionally set the user to run 'make test' with:

perl Makefile.PL --testuser=username

Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL li
+ne 561.
Failed to determine directory of mysql.h. Use

  perl Makefile.PL --cflags=-I<dir>

to set this directory. For details see DBD::mysql::INSTALL,
section "C Compiler flags" or type

  perl Makefile.PL --help
Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where my
+sql_config is located
-> N/A
-> FAIL Configure failed for DBD-mysql-4.043. See /home/steve/.cpanm/w
+ork/1513190088.24934/build.log for details.

[marto]

Did you read DBD::mysql::INSTALL?

[nysus]

Just tried following it. There is no mysql_config file on my server. Debian probably takes care of all that. I'm in over my head.

[nysus]

Unless I can apt-get install or cpan|cpanm without error, I get frightened off by perl module installations. I'm a bit better at it. I can handle minor issues. But when it gets to more involved, I'm in over my head. I've read some stuff over the years about installing Perl modules from scratch but it all gets forgotten as I just rely on the tools that do it all for me. And then, when I do get my hands dirty, it seems inevitably something goes wrong and I end up making things a confusing mess for myself.

[nysus]

I glanced at it. Does that count?

[marto]

No, it's not. You've chosen to use a tool, read and understand the documentation and that of the systems you've chosen to use. There's no magic to anything. Take the time to understand these things.

[tinita]

Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line 88.

apt-file can be a great help for such things. I often get errors about missing .h files and don't know which package they are in, but usually I find them with apt-file.
% apt-file search mysql_config
It also takes regular expressions.