mapserver compile looking for mysqlclient when --without-mygis

[milovanderlinden]

I try to compile mapserver with this configuration:

./configure --with-wfs --with-wfsclient --with-wmsclient --with-wms --with-proj --with-geos --with-gdal --with-ogr --with-agg --with-freetype --with-postgis --with-wcs --with-sos --with-fastcgi --with-fribidi-config --without-mygis --with-httpd=/usr/sbin/httpd2

./configure runs ok, but when I do make; I get:

/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: * [shp2img] Fout 1

In my opinion, setting --without-mygis should stop libmysqlclient dependencies, am I right?

[milovanderlinden]

It seems that mysqlclient is also referenced by GDAL as set in the Makefile, FrankW assured it can be removed.

workaround:

Alter line 139 in the Makefile and remove the reference to libmysqlclient

[warmerdam]

Milo mentioned in IRC that this is coming in as part of GDAL_LIB based on gdal-config --libs showing it.

So the problem is that gdal-config is claiming a need for more libraries than is actually required.

In Milo's case presumably he has the fine grained runtime library (something like /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15) which is used by libgdal, but he doesn't have the generic .so used when linking against libmysqlclient - the /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so file - that would be in the mysql-dev package.

I believe the fix is for GDAL to better declare it's requirements (everything can be in --dep-libs).

Workarounds:

1) Remove -lmysqlclient from GDAL_LIBS manually

2) Install the mysql-dev package (not sure what it might be called)

Ticket filed upstream at:

​http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3212

Closing this ticket since it is not a mapserver problem per se.