A question about macports perl and apple perl and versions and locations

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 14, 2015, at 5:15 AM, Robert Chalmers <robert at chalmers.com.au> wrote:
> Because yesterday I archived the existing perl binaries in /usr/bin, and put links to /opt/local/bin/perl*

don't do that.

> So obviously what happened was this.
> The macports perl wanted to talk to macports mysql - and couldn’t. It’s not even running. A different mysql is running. So macports perl5-22 relies on having macports mysql installed in the /opt hierarchy somewhere.  

no, it just has a default path (that used to be correct, and now isn't for your particular setup).

> So now I have to figure out if it’s worth moving to macports mysql, and how??? so then I can hopefully also switch perl versions….  or just leave well enough alone.

just configure your scripts to start up with the perl interpreter that you want (change the #! line), and configure your connection string to point to the mysql that you want it to connect to (http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-mysql/lib/DBD/mysql.pm - look for mysql_socket)

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