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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: strange mysql path problem in kdelibs, current cvs
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwe () uwix ! alt ! na>
Date:       2001-04-16 21:55:21
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Roberto Alsina wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, dep wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 16 April 2001 03:10 pm, Alessandro Praduroux wrote:
> > 
> > | There is a problem with some distros (I know of SUSE) that put
> > | mysql libraries in /usr/lib but developement files in
> > | /usr/lib/mysql. The configure script finds a libmysqlclient.la in
> > | /usr/lib/mysql and tries to use that one to link the plugin. IMHO
> > | this is a problem in the distro, try edit libmysqlclient.la in
> > | /usr/lib/mysql and correct the path here (maybe not the most
> > | correct solution, but it should work).
> > 
> > it appears that you can add mandrake and caldera to the list of 
> > distros who do this. 
> 
> And conectiva. The thing is, configure seems to ignore the
> --with-mysql-dir option when this happens. I just ended symlinking ;-)
> 
> > now. why does kde want to link to mysql to begin with? is there a 
> > configure flag ( -- no-mysql?)  that jumps over this? i'm a little 
> > puzzled over what this is supposed to bring to the table.
> 
> It's for kdedb. And that's good if you want rekall to work.

In a sense, it't good, yes. But the auto[make|conf] stuff should just
disable compilation of the mysql plugin if it isn't found (and should
find it in the first place if it's installed ;-).

Uwe

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