On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:39:04 +0100 Michael Prokop <m...@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: libmariadbclient-dev
> Version: 10.1.21-5
> Severity: serious
>
> [...]
>
> % grep Libs /usr/share/pkgconfig/mariadb.pc
> Libs: -L${libdir} -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lz -lm -ldl
> % grep mysqlclient /usr/bin/mysql_config
> libs="-L$pkglibdir -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lz -lm -ldl"
>
> The hardcoded -lmysqlclient is wrong in this situation though:
>
> [...]
> % gcc -o demo demo.c $(pkg-config --cflags mariadb) $(pkg-config --libs
> mariadb)
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> % gcc -o demo demo.c $(mysql_config --cflags) $(mysql_config --libs)
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> [...]
>
> As an alternative/workaround installing the
> default-libmysqlclient-dev + libmariadbclient-dev-compat packages
> also fixes the problem with -lmysqlclient usage.
>
> This clearly shouldn't reach the stable stretch release as is, IMO.
>
> regards,
> -mika-
>
>
Hi MariaDB maintainers,
Any news on this bug? :)
Thanks,
~Niels
