amarok-2.0.2 issues with Gentoo patched mysql to build libmysqld as a shared lib

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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Hi.

Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 2009 m. April 18 d., Saturday 23:46:51 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
>> Most of the bug reports are about the run-time behavior of both
>> amarok-2.0.2 and amarok-2.0.90 with our updated mysql that builds
>> libmysqld as a shared lib.
> Rather than doing something as unsupported as creating a shared libmysqld.so 
> which you cannot maintain API/ABI of, link libmysqld.a to amarok executable 
> (but NOT sqlcollection plugin). Absolutely painless and you can forget about 
> all this -fPIC mess.

Well, our patch has already been mentioned in the mysql bug [1] and we
are talking to upstream about it. Furthermore, bundling a static lib in
an application executable is not exactly Gentoo's "modus operandi".

 [1] - http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=39288

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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
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