>> 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.... > > But not as (and only as) archive libraries. I have no issue with > any of > the libraries being there, except for libz.
Some applications will want to link statically against the functions in the archive libraries. Theoretically there is no reason for them to be there, but practically some tools will want them. MC -- Martin 'MC' Brown, mc at mcslp.com Everything MCslp: http://planet.mcslp.com
