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@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ Before installing, you need:
A transactional database engine supported by Perl's DBI.
- PostgreSQL (v7 or higher) is recommended.
-
- MySQL has been reported to work.
- MySQL's default MyISAM and ISAM table types are not supported. If you want to use MySQL, you must use one of the new transaction-safe table types such as BDB or InnoDB, and set it as the default table type using the
--default-table-type=BDB
or --default-table-type=InnoDB
mysqld command-line option or by setting default-table-type=BDB
or default-table-type=InnoDB
in the my.cnf option file.
+ - MySQL versions before 4.1 do not support standard SQL subqueries and are NOT SUPPORTED. If you are a developer who wishes to contribute MySQL 3.x/4.0 support, see ticket #438 in the bug-tracking system and ask on the -devel mailing list.
+
Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
@@ -68,16 +70,17 @@ Enter it again:
Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n) n
CREATE USER
- with MySQL:
+
Edit the top-level Makefile:
- - Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg:host=localhost;dbname=freeside for PostgresSQL or DBI:mysql:freeside for MySQL. See the DBI manpage and the manpage for your DBD for the exact syntax of your DBI data source.
+
- Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg:host=localhost;dbname=freeside for PostgresSQL. See the DBI manpage and the manpage for your DBD for the exact syntax of your DBI data source.
- Set DB_PASSWORD to the freeside database user's password.
Add the freeside database to your database engine:
@@ -88,9 +91,10 @@ $ su
$ su freeside
$ createdb freeside
- (with MySQL:)
+
Build and install the Perl modules:
$ make perl-modules