MySQL embedded and pthreads

[Martin Aumueller]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Edward Hades wrote:
[...]
> True, but it's build-only dependency. And if the two latter issues
> (key length and exit) are bearable, I am not quite sure if non-fPIC
> code can be used in shared libraries on every platform we target.

E.g. on amd64 linux, code that is to be linked into shared objects (dynamic 
libraries, plugins, ...) has to be compiled with -fPIC. Otherwise, the linker 
won't do it.