Rainer Endres <endres@physos.org> writes:

> Hi
> 
> On Tuesday 08 May 2001 01:11, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:10PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > By then we should have a solution for the "mysql" problem in kdelibs.
> > > There are people including me who don't have mysql installed. Configure
> > > shouldn't bail out of it but simply not compile that stuff in
> > > kdedb/plugins. It's no poblem for me to comment out that stuff in the
> > > Makefilel but for Joe Doe it might be.
> >
> > Odd, I do not have MySql installed on my workstation and kdelibs compiles
> > fine for me, unmodified.
> 
> The problem seems to be an installed mysql without the appropiate 
> libmysqlclient.so. mysql is found by configure, but the compile fails because 
> of the missing lib (at least for me). (only .la there) Maybe mysql-devel rpm 
> is needed ?
> 
> 
> --disable-kde-db did the trick for me, but this diables the other plugins,too.
> 
> MfG
> 	Rainer

I am running Mandrake 7.2 on one computer and tracked the problem
down; it was a broken libmysql installation. The package
"MySQL-devel-3.23.23-1mdk" installs libmysqlclient[_r].la files in
/usr/lib/mysql but the corresponding .so files to /usr/lib. The
configure.in.in contents would find them in both locations, but
compilation obviously fails on this setup. :-(

A working solution is

  mv /usr/lib/libmysqlclient* /usr/lib/mysql/

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