> On 2019-03-11, at 00:10, MacPorts <macpo...@hyperbole-software.com> wrote: > > I noticed that the socket in /var/mysql is called mysql.sock while the one in > /opt/local/var/run/mysql5 is called mysqld.sock (note the 'd' between 'l' and > '.'). > > I tried using > $ sudo ln -s /var/mysql/mysql.sock /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock > > for some reason that also didn't work. > > Then I tried: > $ sudo ln -s /var/mysql/mysql.sock /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysql.sock > $ sudo mv /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysql.sock > /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock > > this worked. I don't know why this worked and making the link directly > didn't, but at least it's working now. >
I ran into a similar issue a long time ago with PHP. PHP has an option to control this setting at build time and it also has a runtime option in php.ini. The DBI port should be doing the same. I don't think users should have to add things outside of the prefix, unmanaged by port. -- Andrew Udvare
