On Tuesday 16 May 2006 05:45, Bojan Smojver wrote: > Is there a particular reason we aren't using mysql_config script to > figure out various settings required to compile/link against MySQL? > Version 4.1 and above (what the driver is designed for) ship the script. > > It could save a lot of guessing in the M4 script... > > PS. We can do similar things for PostgreSQL as well, with pg_config.
At a guess, because noone knew about them at the time we hacked the M4. I certainly didn't. -- Nick Kew
