On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:04:26AM +0100, Badbanchi Hossein wrote:
> Tried to install the 3.8 package. Didn't work since the 3.8 packages are
> linked against 3.8 libraries.
This is documented in the FAQ; it's unsupported.
> Next installed 3.8 ports.tar.gz on my 3.9 OpenBSD, and tried "make build
> key=mysql-server-4.0.24p1".
ports(7); key=... is not used.
> The process stops by creating the "mysql-client-4.0.24" package, with
> the following message:
This, too, is documented in the FAQ; it's unsupported.
[...]
> Have tried all I could think of, and have done much googling, but
> no chance.
In all your googling, you didn't find the FAQ entries that make it
clear that what your doing isn't supposed to work?
> From the list of what I have already tried:
> 1) Added
> #SHARED_LIBS= ???
> to /usr/ports/infrastructure/templates/Makefile.template.
bsd.port.mk(5); Makefile.template isn't read by anything. Moreover,
how could adding a comment affect anything?
The right way to do what you want to do is to build the old MySQL
yourself. Better yet, fix/ditch the software that requires the old
MySQL.
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