[debian-mysql] Bug#450535: Bug#450535: libmysqlclient16: Please version symbols differently in libmysqlclient_r and libmysqlclient

[Stefan Fritsch]

On Friday 09 November 2007, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> >> - make libmysqlclient symlink to libmysqlclient_r
> >>
> >> but these might cause unnecessary performance degradation.
> >> (Although I don't
> >> know whether this is really an issue).
> >
> > Would that work? The performance degradation would indeed be
> > neglible as most time is usually spend in the server and not in
> > fetching the result data.
>
> It would certainly not be binary compatible to other distributions.
> And mysql_config would need to be modified so that --libs includes
> -lthread as --libs_r does. I don't know what else needs to be
> changed.

There is some more information at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/threaded-clients.html