MySQLdb build on Solaris 7

[Asim Beg]

My ISP has Python 2.1 installed and I can run Python CGI programs
fine. I now need to connect to MySQL. I need to install MySQLdb and am
having difficulty getting the MySQLdb source to build. I have tried
both MySQL-python-0.9.0 and MySQL-python-0.9.1.

The machine is a solaris 7 with Python 2.1 on it. When I try to build
it starts building and then goes into an infinite loop with strange
libmysqlclient.a error messages..

If you are going to help, please be specfic and don't rant about the
do's and don't of why I am doing this. I am new to Python and would
really like to use CGI+Python+MySQL on an ISP hosted account.

Also since I cannot install MySQLdb in the standard places on Solaris,
how should I go about after the build step. Where and which files
should I copy to my home dir toget Python to work with MySQLdb.

Thanks

Asim


bash-2.03$ uname -a
SunOS europa 5.7 Generic_106541-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80

bash-2.03$ python
Python 2.1 (#1, May 25 2001, 16:58:42) 
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on sunos5
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

bash-2.03$ cd MySQL-python-0.9.0
bash-2.03$ python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
not copying CompatMysqldb.py (output up-to-date)
not copying _mysql_exceptions.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/__init__.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/converters.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/connections.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/cursors.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/sets.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/times.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/constants/__init__.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/constants/CR.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/constants/FIELD_TYPE.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/constants/ER.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/constants/REFRESH.py (output up-to-date)
not copying MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.py (output up-to-date)
running build_ext
building '_mysql' extension
skipping _mysql.c (build/temp.solaris-2.7-sun4u-2.1/_mysql.o
up-to-date)
gcc -shared build/temp.solaris-2.7-sun4u-2.1/_mysql.o
-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -o
build/lib.solaris-2.7-sun4u-2.1/_mysql.so
Text relocation remains                         referenced
    against symbol                  offset      in file
mysql_read_query_result             0x2da4     
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(libmysql.o)
shutdown                            0x20c      
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(violite.o)
printf                              0x1244     
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(charset.o)
printf                              0x428      
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(default.o)
printf                              0x3fc      
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(default.o)
printf                              0x1238     
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(charset.o)
printf                              0x13c8     
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(charset.o)
printf                              0x125c     
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(charset.o)
printf             
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