[kde-freebsd] MySQL55 (Akonadi) bites other ports

[Max Brazhnikov]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:47:16 +0100, tom at diogunix.com wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I recently stumbled across a problem with MySQL Workbench, which doesn't
> compile the port if MySQL 55 is installed.
> 
> As MySQL 55 gets installed with the installation of KDE, I jsut had no
> other quick "solution" but to remove MySQL 55 though it's needed for
> Akonadi and the PIM programs.
> 
> Of course I now can't use KMail and the other Akonadi dependent software.
> 
> The proper solution was (of course) to make the Workbench port build with
> MySQL 55. I even tried to contact the MySQl internals list to get
> information on how to make that happen. Unfortunately, I did not get even
> one single reply.
> 
> So, my proposal was, to just modify the KDE port and ask the user on
> whether to build KDE/Akonadi with MySQL 5.5 oder with MySQL 5.5.

KDE ports don't force your to use mysql 5.5, this is the default version 
provided by the ports system. You probably want to put WITH_MYSQL_VER=51 in 
your /etc/make.conf and rebuild dependent ports.
 
> I do actually not know whether KDE needs certain MySQL 55 features.
> I just guess, MySQL 5.1 was fine too.
> 
> Any comments ?
> 
> kind regards
> Tom
> _______________________________________________
> kde-freebsd mailing list
> kde-freebsd at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
> See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information