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@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ Before installing, you need:
A transactional database engine supported by Perl's DBI.
- PostgreSQL is recommended (v7or later).
-
- 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.
-
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- MySQL MINIMUM VERSION 4.1 is untested but may work. 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.
+
+ 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.
Perl modules (CPAN will query, download and build perl modules automatically)
Edit the top-level Makefile:
- - Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside for PostgresSQL. See the DBI manpage and the manpage for your DBD for the exact syntax of your DBI data source.
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- Set DATASOURCE to your DBI data source, for example, DBI:Pg: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 DB_PASSWORD to the freeside database user's password.
Add the freeside database to your database engine:
@@ -93,10 +92,9 @@ $ su
$ su freeside
$ createdb freeside
-
Build and install the Perl modules:
$ make perl-modules