Building MySQL Embedded for Amarok 2

[Edward Hades]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Soren Harward <stharward at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
My poor knowledge of English did its job too ;)

> 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?

Affirmative. And I personally think they should provide an option to
choose from --with-pic and non--with-pic versions. Either by USE-flags
or by splitting packages, or however they feel necessary. Or just
stick to --with-pic only, since it breaks nothing.

-- 
Edward "Hades" Toroshchin,
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