97a41387e5a5dafe84e94c34640ec494d2f316ea
hiram
  Thu May 23 14:19:32 2013 -0700
approaching something useful refs #9104
diff --git src/hg/sqlEnvTest.sh src/hg/sqlEnvTest.sh
index 5c8c511..b532590 100755
--- src/hg/sqlEnvTest.sh
+++ src/hg/sqlEnvTest.sh
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+# special test to avoid this during external userApps build
+if test "$NOSQLTEST" = "1" ; then
+  exit 0
+fi
+
 if test "$MYSQLLIBS x" = " x" -o "$MYSQLINC x" = " x" ; then
     echo "ERROR: missing MYSQLLIBS or MYSQLINC definitions in environment"
     echo "these are typically,"
     echo "  for bash shell users:"
     echo '    $ export MYSQLLIBS="/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a -lz"'
     echo "    $ export MYSQLINC=/usr/include/mysql"
     echo "  for csh/tcsh shell users:"
     echo '    % setenv MYSQLLIBS "/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a -lz"'
     echo "    % setenv MYSQLINC /usr/include/mysql"
     echo "See also: http://genome.ucsc.edu/admin/jk-install.html"
     exit 255
 fi
 exit 0