2 messages in com.mysql.lists.mysqlNeed Help with RH 7.0 RPM install
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Harry C. Marotto Jr.08 Apr 2001 09:36 
Jens Vonderheide08 Apr 2001 10:24 
Subject:Need Help with RH 7.0 RPM install
From:Harry C. Marotto Jr. (harr@home.com)
Date:04/08/2001 09:36:25 AM
List:com.mysql.lists.mysql

I have not been able to figure this out, yet. I found the file /usr/share/mysql/make_binary_distribution and tried a make on it; no luck. I scoured the documentation on the web and in my own distribution and have not been able to find out what to do next. See Below. I would appreciate getting some advise as to where to turn next. thanks, HARry

Subject:mysql-3.23.32-1.7.i386.rpm
From:Harry C. Marotto Jr. (harr@home.com)
Date:Fri, 06 Apr 2001 22:09:30 -0400

I'm trying to set up a database system for the first time. I installed
mysql-3.23.32-1.7.i386.rpm on my RedHat Linux version 7.0, but it doesn't seem to have set up correctly.
Is anyone familiar with how to proceed from the point of installing this RPM to getting the server
configured and the daemon started, so as to be able to start the tutorial on the test DB?

In the documentation located here:
, the post install instructions don't seem to work.

/usr/bin/mysql_install_db gives the following message: "Didn't find /usr/libexec/mysqld You should do a 'make install' before executing this script."

Also, I believe I need to be executing the ./mysql_config with some set of
arguments according to this section of the documentation:

"If you want to compile statically linked programs (for example, to make a
binary distribution, to get more speed, or to work around problems with some RedHat Linux
distributions), run configure like this:

shell> ./configure --with-client-ldflags=-all-static \ --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static "

This document is far too generalized for me to know exactly what to do. I've
tried bouncing a few things around, but have not been able to move forward. Fortunately, I haven't
messed up my system, yet!

Lost in the Ozone, HARry