Re: Re: [Tracker] Some Questions

[jamiemcc blueyonder co uk]

> Hi,
> and sorry for posting again, but I think I found the
> explanation for my issues and it is contained in the
> following mysql-bug
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=5396, which is closed
> for the 4.x branch, but it seems that it is still
> present on 5.x one.
> The bug in itself clarifies, why I  have problems with
> linking against libmysqld.a, in fact the bugs in
> mysql_config are two it should not return the
> --as-needed flag as well...
> the comment from the mysql-developer possibly explains
> the second issue, which I had:
>  [10 Sep 2004 15:15] Alexey Botchkov
>
> Now embedded library can connect to the standalone
> server (contains libmysql's
> capabilities). So we just to add client libraries to
> embedded linker's line
>
> which probably shows another bug in mysql - trying as
> failover (if the embedded server could not be
> correctly initiallized) to connect to the server
> running on the machine, but as this is a non-issue
> with the current tracker, I'm not eager to explore
> it:)


Thanks for the info. I will probably add -lssl just as a precaution so
that it builds okay at least until mysql fixes the bug.