[webstack-discuss] Including MySQL 5.0 with Solaris [LSARC/2007/608 FastTrack timeout 10/26/2007]

[Ritu Kamboj]

Danek Duvall wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:03:39PM -0700, Ritu Kamboj wrote:
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>>We shall be having version directory under both /var and /etc directory (ie 
>>/var/mysql/5.0/data and /etc/mysql/5.0.
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>Okay.
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>>We shall be having a symbolic link from /usr/mysql/5.0 to /usr/mysql.
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>That's physically impossible.  Or do you simply mean that the subdirs in
>/usr/mysql/5.0 will have links to them in /usr/mysql?
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I meant subdirs in /usr/mysq/5.0 will have links to them in /usr/mysql ...

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>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libdbug.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libheap.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libmyisam.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libmyisammrg.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libmysqlclient.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libmysqlclient.la
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libmysqlclient_r.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libmysqlclient_r.la
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libmystrings.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libmysys.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libvio.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libz.a
>>>>/usr/mysql/5.0/lib/libz.la
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>>>Why are you delivering .a files?  And what use are .la files on Solaris?
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>>The MYSQL release area does not have shared library version for all the 
>>libraries
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>And people using mysql are generally content to rebuild their applications
>whenever fixes are made to these libraries?  We would never allow archive
>libraries for a Sun-controlled project, but even though that's not the case
>here, I'd like to get an idea of what the impact is for the (typical?)
>end-user.
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>>...we are providing all the libraries that are provided in the default
>>MySQL release area.
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>But why the .la files?  And what's libz doing there?  Is that the same libz
>as in /usr/lib/libz.so.1?
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>Danek
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