Monty, MySQL, and an end to the packaging nightmare

[Alex Merry]

On Sunday 26 April 2009 20:04:04 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> So: I think we should take him up on his offer and see if he delivers.
> Please send me all of the issues you can think of -- both in terms of
> developing with it and packaging it, links to bug reports are bonus
> points -- and once it's collected I'll send it off to him and see what
> he does with it.  If things progress, we can see about switching to Maya
> -- if it's really basically a drop-in replacement it shouldn't be too
> difficult for any of us.

A major issue is that libmysqld.a is not compiled with -fPIC, even if you pass 
--with-pic on the configure line.  It requires setting CFLAGS before 
configuring.  Without this, libmysqld.a cannot be linked into a .so library on 
x86_64.

Some distros (such as Arch) won't do this for the default packages because of 
concerns about a possible effect on the speed of the main server.

If libmysqld.a could be compiled with -fPIC without affecting the rest of the 
build, this would be resolved without affecting people concerned about speed.

Alex


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