On 09/15/2016 05:35 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 09/15/16 06:49, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Phil Stracchino: >>> Well, it's supposed to Just Work if they're using libmysqlclient. I'm >>> not sure where to get the information of NOT using libmysqlclient, other >>> than just searching likely locations. >> FYI, Postfix uses libmysqlclient. So what's up with not reading >> the default config file? > In that case, I have no idea why it's not picking up the default config. > To the best of my understanding, it should. But having never worked > with libmysqlclient directly myself, my understanding may very well be > incomplete or wrong, and it's likely there are details I don't know. > > In order to get libmysqlclient to read the standard options file you have to specifically define the group name to read from that file for example "your_prog_name".
mysql_options(&mysql,MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_GROUP,"your_prog_name"); This must be called prior to mysql_real_connect. When you specify this option, then the [client] section and the [your_prog_name] section of the default my.cnf file are read. John
