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

[Martin MC Brown]

On 25 Oct 2007, at 08:01, Danek Duvall wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:42:42AM +0100, Martin MC Brown wrote:
>
>> Some applications will want to link statically against the  
>> functions in the
>> archive libraries.
>
> Why?  And do these applications generally put the archive library  
> directly
> on the link line, or do they use -L and -l?

I'm not sure I can answer that question - I don't every single  
application currently being developed against MySQL :)

I can tell you from experience here at MySQL that when we have  
mistakenly during a build or release not included these libraries  
people complain.

> If there's no technical reason for people to use archive libraries  
> (and
> there almost certainly isn't) and we're not going to break application
> builds by removing them, then I'd much rather not ship them (as  
> long as the
> shared libraries are easily generated).

Well, I still don't understand why not. Are we somehow short of space  
or limitations on file numbers?

They are part of the standard MySQL binary distribution and are built  
by default from the sources - if you don't include then some people  
may well think that the supplied installation of MySQL is either  
restricted or incomplete. That would somewhat diminish the impression  
of MySQL and Solaris/OpenSolaris, and is certainly not something I  
would want to perpetuate for the sake of a couple of files.

MC

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