Hi Danek, In his email yesterday Martin said the following:
----------------------- If you are only building clients then technically you only need libmysqlclient, but if you are developing a C app that accesses the structures and information in the response from mysqlclient you may need the other (libmystrings particularly). If you want to develop or add a storage engine to existing setup, then you need all the other libraries *except* libmysqlclient. -------------------------------- that explains why libmystrings and lib<storageengine> exist.... I shall get a definitive answer regarding libdbug and libmysys. Regards, Ritu Danek Duvall wrote: >On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:08:24AM -0700, Ritu Kamboj wrote: > > > >>As Matt and Martin pointed out there are use cases of the static libraries >>bundled in the default MySQL installation. >> >> > >Martin's message didn't demonstrate any use cases, and Matt said he thought >he recalled them being required at some point in the past. That's pretty >weak. > > > >>Kindly let me know if that is fine and we shall update the ARC case >>accordingly. >> >> > >I'd like a definitive answer from the MySQL folks as to whether they >consider the archive libraries to be a required part of an install, but >that needn't hold up the case (and didn't, apparently, as it was approved >yesterday). > >Danek > >
