Re: Extracting configuration info from config.status

[Joachim Worringen]

Barry Leslie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I work on plug-ins for MySQL and building a plug-in out side of the MySQL
> tree requires that you configure your build with the same compiler settings
> as the MySQL build that you are targeting.

If there's such a close dependency (which I find surprising - there are 
C API's like for shared libraries that only depend on matching 32- or 
64-bit!), the better solution would be to have a location in the MySQL 
source tree where you can put your plugin code (as a subdirectory, here 
named "barry"). Then provide an option to MySQL's configure like 
"--with-plugin=barry". This should then configure your plugin from the 
MySQL configure script, and you can build it afterwards.

Your current approach is very fragile, and I would not invest effort in 
it. Of course, my proposal requires changes in MySQL; but after all, 
it's open source...

 Joachim

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