Further investigation has revealed that upstream provides no way to do this since the switch to cmake.
I will attach a patch to client/CMakeLists.txt which solves the issue and produces smaller, dynamically linked binaries.. but this needs to be pushed upstream. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898340 Title: mysql clients statically link libmysqlclient in To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/+bug/898340/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs