[csw-maintainers] MySQL shared libraries - how about /opt/csw/lib?

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> I'm currently working with MySQL 5.x packages.  I've looked again at
> the mysql libraries and noticed that they are placed under
> /opt/csw/mysql5/lib/mysql.  For example:
>
> /opt/csw/mysql5/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15
>
> I don't quite see a reason for this library to be there.  We do
> compile packages that depend on MySQL libraries, and these binaries
> have to embed the right RPATH in order to work properly.  Why do we
> first hide these library deep under /opt/csw/mysql5 only to have
> trouble finding them later on?  We could simply put these libraries
> under /opt/csw/lib:
>
> /opt/csw/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15
>
> The sonames of these libraries are bumped up with every MySQL update:
> 4.0: libmysqlclient.so.14, 5.0: libmysqlclient.so.15, 5.1:
> libmysqlclient.so.16.  There will be no issues related to coexisting
> multiple MySQL versions.  Any thoughts on that?  Bad idea?  Good idea?

Good idea as we can now easily supply versioned shared libraries in
versioned packages per our previous discussions.
-- 
Peter