[MacPorts] #21581: MySql socket location change

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#21581: MySql socket location change
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 Reporter:  scott@…           |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  request           |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal            |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports             |     Version:  1.8.0                                
 Keywords:  mysql5            |        Port:  mysql5                               
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 Can we start some discussion on this, I see this as being painful for
 MacPorts users.  Especially on one of the users that I believe MacPorts is
 widely used, which is getting MAMP running.

 At some point in the past I could get php 5, MySql5, and Apache 2 running
 in a few commands, with little trouble.

 I can not find, or at least, I do not understand how to use trac well
 enough to see when the socket location of MySql was changed, though I am
 looking to know why.

 Php looks in a known location, /tmp I believe.  This I also believe is a
 hard coded in the source, or is a compile time option that can be changed.

 If it can be changed at compile time, then why not set the socket to MySql
 to the right location when php is built?

 My ideal solution would be to put the MySql socket in the location that
 php looks for it by default.

 As it is now, if I were to
 port install php5
 port install mysql5
 port install apache2

 There is a good deal of work to be done before I am able to use those
 tools.  On a local dev machine, I never even bothered to set up php.ini,
 and just relied on the defaults of php without any explicit file.

 Now, there are no less than three socket locations I need to change.

 What are your thoguhts on this, and what is the history?
 My vote, change MySql to put the socket where php defaults to looking for
 it.  We already had a user installing phpMyAdmin, the simplest of many
 softwares to install, ending up dropping localhost in favor of a tcp
 connection just to get this to work.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21581>
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