Originally Posted by Fris

here are some thing you can try

did you add mysql_enable="YES" to rc.conf?

did you edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh to include --old-passwords

if so move below

edit your Makefile so it has these

(cut and paste)


--enable-ctype \
--with-curl=/usr/local/bin \
--enable-exif \
--with-gd \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-mcal=/usr/local \
--with-mcrypt=/usr/local \
--with-mhash=/usr/local \
--with-mysql=/usr/local \
--with-ncurses=/usr \
--enable-overload \
--with-pcre-regex=yes \
--enable-posix \
--with-readline=/usr \
--enable-session \
--enable-sockets \
--with-mysqli=/usr/local/bin/mysql_config \
--enable-tokenizer \
--enable-xml \
--with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs \
--enable-libxml \
--with-libxml-dir=${LOCALBASE} \
--enable-reflection \
--enable-spl \


that should do it