[rtg] problems installing RTG on SLES 10 (SuSE)

[Yu Safin]

On 11/6/06, Yu Safin <calanet at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to RTG and I am trying to install the rtg-0.7.4 package.
> I installed "mysql" and changed the password for root (mysqladmin -u
> root password xxxx).  I tested mysql by signing on and off.
> Then, after "tar -xvzf rtg*.tar.gz", I run "./configure".
> I get the following problem.
> ......
> ......
> checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
> checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
> checking return type of signal handlers... void
> checking for gettimeofday... yes
> checking for strerror... yes
> checking for strtoll... yes
> configure: error: Cannot find MySQL headers.  Use --with-mysql= to
> specify non-default path.
>
>
> SO, I did a "which mysql",  ran "./configure --with-mysql=/usr/bin" and got
> .....
> .....
> checking return type of signal handlers... void
> checking for gettimeofday... yes
> checking for strerror... yes
> checking for strtoll... yes
> configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under /usr/bin
>
> SO, I tried ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/lib/mysql
>
> NORMALY header files are in the "devel" packages.  I checked my CD's
> for mysql development RPMS and I cannot find it.
>
> has anybody had any success installing RTG under SLES or OpenSuSE?
>
I checked with the Novell WEB site and for SLES version 10.1 (I am
running 10), they have mysql-devel version 5.  I am running SLES 10.0
with mysql version 4.
So I am going to upgrade my machine to 10.1.