Building MySQL Embedded for Amarok 2

[Jeff Mitchell]

Edward Hades wrote:
> 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.
> 

I don't understand either.  Why would it matter if they provide this
option, if by 1) above it doesn't actually work anyways?

--Jeff