possible problems with building amarok

[Rich]

a couple of possible problems. might be also pebkac problems :)

1. mysql is installed in /usr/local/mysql;
/usr/local/mysql/bin is added to the path, thus mysql_config is 
successfully found.
it returns :

Usage: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config [OPTIONS]
Options:
         --cflags         [-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql]
         --include        [-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql]

these directories are correct, and probably are taken from here to be 
used later.
unfortunately, later build process does not try to find mysql.h in the 
include directory, it is looking for mysql/mysql.h - and that fails, of 
course.
mysql.h file happily resides in /usr/local/mysql/include/mysql

2. exporting CFLAGS with -I/usr/local/mysql/include unfortunately does 
not work. this value is used for some time in the compilation, then it 
disappears completely - only to reappear later as 
-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql (probably the one from mysql_config ?). 
of course, build fails in the same way as in the first case.

the exported include directory disappears somewhere between these lines :
make[4]: Leaving directory `/install/amarok/svn/amarok/src/sqlite'
Making all in analyzers
make[4]: Entering directory `/install/amarok/svn/amarok/src/analyzers'


i probably could just symlink include files, rebuild mysql to /usr/local 
or some other directory - but i would like to know why these two 
problems surface and is this the expected behaviour.
-- 
  Rich