I just spent 3 hours just to look at this error of wordpress, trying to figure out why the hell wordpress can’t connect to mysql. Because i created the mysql user myself, there is definitely no reason i entered the wrong password. And the mysqld daemon did run fine as i could create user and [...]
In order to compile PHP successfully on 64 bit you need to use the option
–with-libdir=lib64
otherwise you will stay forever with the error
checking for MySQL support… yes
checking for specified location of the MySQL UNIX socket… no
checking for MySQL UNIX socket location… no
checking for mysql_close in -lmysqlclient… no
checking for mysql_error in -lmysqlclient… no
configure: error: mysql configure failed. [...]
