On Mar 14, 2007, at 19:05, Marco Battistella wrote:

I have made a small variant for the installation of php5. This variant allows the use of the mysql4 binary that can be downloaded form the mysql site. I have been using that for longer than i have be using darwinports so it made sense to me to install php5 this way, i don't know if it can be of any use to anybody else or if it makes any sense to include it in the distribution... Tested on Mac OS X 10.3.9 Sever.

variant mymysql4 conflicts mysql3 mysql4 mysql5 { configure.args-delete --without-mysql configure.args-append --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql }

I am one of the maintainers of the php5 port. I am reluctant to include such an option, because it is MacPorts philosophy to use its own libraries unless there is a very good reason not to. See the FAQ: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/ FAQ#WhyisMacPortsusingitsownlibraries You can continue to use your mysql.com MySQL server and command-line client if you like. php5 will be able to access it (unless, I believe, you are using PDO, which seems to be a PHP bug). However, in order to compile with mysql5 support, the mysql5 port will be installed. This should not be a problem. It should not interfere with your mysql.com MySQL installation in any way. If this is unsatisfactory, please let me know. Finally, I would even encourage you to use the MacPorts MySQL server instead of the one provided by mysql.com, because mysql.com has ceased providing free up-to-date binaries; the binaries you can get from mysql.com are now several versions old. This means you will not get security updates or any other updates from mysql.com without paying for it. But if you compile from source yourself, or do it more easily with MacPorts, you will. And, looking at the mysql.com web site, I see that I'm wrong again. They are providing the current version 5.0.37 in binary form now. But for several versions they were not providing binaries and it was unclear what their continued plan was.