Re: removing bundled libmysql

Most distributions I am aware of already ship with compiled & installed MySQL libraries. So, in many cases unless you seek to upgrade (or downgrade if 4.X libs are in place and you need 3.X libs) you won't need to do a thing. Big distros such as rhat will probably already have compiled modules for you to load and even if you do need to compile the MySQL lib compile + source of ext/mysql + linking takes no more then 20-30 seconds on a moderately up to date computer. Ilia On June 21, 2003 12:22 pm, Wei He wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ilia A. wrote: > > On June 21, 2003 11:55 am, Marcus Börger wrote: > > > Please disable ext/mysql by default then, too. > > > > Please don't, if the configure script can find the mysql library needed > > by the extension on the system I see no reason why not to enable to mysql > > extension by default. Given the large number of php + mysql users, it'll > > surely reduce the amount of frustration users will experience once they > > realize their PHP no longer has a default MySQL extension. > > PHP RPM users will have to rebuild PHP from source RPM in order to > use MySQL 4.x libraries if it is bundled. Am I right? > > And you know building PHP source RPM is a huge task as one have to > install a lot of dependent RPMs for unused modules. And the compiling > takes long time. > > Wei He