Further problems with NDO Utils

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ton Voon wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2007, at 19:32, Ton Voon wrote:
> 
>> Can you try the Altinity patched version of NDO Utils? http://
>> altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2007/04/better_mysqlcli.html
>>
>> This incorporates a better detection of mysql (based on the Nagios
>> Plugins' one).
>>
>> I'm trying to get Ethan to apply to the core NDO, so every success is
>> an encouragement.
> 
> I've since realised that this problem is actually a linking issue,  
> not a compile issue.
> 
> There are three options (that I know of):
>    - ld.so.conf
>    - LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime
>    - LD_RUN_PATH at compile time (or some variation of, using linker  
> flags)
> 
> This is not a problem on the Nagios Plugins because we use libtool  
> which adds in the correct linker flags, which is why check_mysql  
> works okay (run ldd check_mysql and it will find the mysql libraries  
> in the non-standard directories).
> 
> This has not been included in the Altinity patch for NDO utils  
> because libtool is a bit of a sledgehammer to crack this nut.
> 

And an ugly one at that. The simplest way is to just add

	-Wl,-rpath /path/to/mysql-libs

in addition to
	-L/path/to/mysql-libs

if the libraries are in a non-standard path.

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