Building MySQL Embedded for Amarok 2

[Soren Harward]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 6:45:14 edward.hades at gmail.com wrote:
> By the way, forgot to mention that the "-fPIC or not -fPIC" debate is
> irrelevant. Mysql's configure script has a --with-pic flag, so
> packaging a PIC-enabled libmysqld is not screwing with the package
> everyone uses, but adding a flexibility, suggested by mysql itself. On
> the other hand, this flag is borked and does nothing for libmysqld,
> but upstream agreed that it's their fault (see relevant mysql bug), so
> it's package maintainers' responsibility to fix it downstream.

Sorry, but I'm having trouble parsing this message; it's early in the morning 
and my brain doesn't seem to be working.  I think the situation is that:

1) MySQL provides a "--with-pic" flag in its configure script, but it doesn't 
currently work for libmysqld.a (per your bug report to MySQL).

and

2) It's still up to each distribution's package maintainers to use 
the --with-pic flag when they're building their MySQL packages.

Is this correct?

-- 
Soren Harward
stharward at gmail.com