SQL Help

[Anon]

Hello,
I'm currently attempting to install mysql (run mysqld) in non-standard directories,
however, when doing so I get the following error:

/usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: Cannot find file './mysql/host.frm'

My problem is that the datadir=/var/mysql/var (non-standard) and I'm not
sure what the './' is relative to and why the mysqld cannot find the
host.frm which does exist in /var/mysql/var/mysql/host.frm .. I've even
verified the values that I'm passing in but mysqld won't start until it
finds the hosts.frm.

Any help?
Jeff