MySQLe link issue

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Edward Hades <edward.hades at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Soren Harward <stharward at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Given that there's a low chance of Gentoo making the compilation change to
>> accommodate us, what should we do to get Amarok2 available on Gentoo?
>
> Sorry for bending the discussion line,

Its already bent out of shape. :)

> but what makes you think the
> problem is specific to Gentoo? I've just checked Debian etch's mysql
> embedded library (which is contained in libmysqlclient package for the
> obvious reasons, not directly related to this post), and it came out
> non-fPIC too.

According to apachelogger, they think its fPIC though. They explicitly
add -fPIC back in Jan 08 (maybe after etch?). Dunno why the problem
persists for debian/kubuntu users.

Ian