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mysql-5.5 package

mysql clients statically link libmysqlclient in

Bug #898340 reported by Clint Byrum on 2011-11-30

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	MySQL Server	Unknown	Unknown	mysql-bugs #64570
	mysql-5.5 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Clint Byrum

Bug Description

mysql and mysqlcheck, and I suspect other binaries, are statically linked to libmysqlclient instead of being linked to the shared library.

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lp:ubuntu/precise/mysql-5.5

Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) on 2011-11-30

Changed in mysql-5.5 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → precise-alpha-2

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2012-02-06

Changed in mysql-5.5 (Ubuntu):
milestone:	precise-alpha-2 → ubuntu-12.04-beta-1

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2012-02-15:

Further investigation has revealed that upstream provides no way to do this since the switch to cmake.

I will attach a patch to client/CMakeLists.txt which solves the issue and produces smaller, dynamically linked binaries.. but this needs to be pushed upstream.

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2012-02-15:

mysql-5.5-compile-clientprograms-dynamically.patch Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain)

Patch to cmake build which links client programs to libmysqlclient dynamically.

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2012-02-15

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added: patch

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2012-03-02

Changed in mysql-5.5 (Ubuntu):
milestone:	ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 → ubuntu-12.04-beta-2

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2012-03-07:

Workaround patch submitted upstream, and in progress bringing it into precise.

Changed in mysql-5.5 (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)

Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) on 2012-03-08

Changed in mysql-5.5 (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2012-03-16:

Upstream seems to think this will be dangerous for a number of reasons, mostly I think because they do not test the client in this configuration. Apparently the mysql client uses some private API bits from libmysqlclient and so this is not even safe technically.

I think we'll probably just have to ship the client statically linked unless upstream blesses this. :-/

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2012-03-29:

Patch reverted in pending upload since upstream does not seem convinced that this can or should be done.

Changed in mysql-5.5 (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Triaged

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2012-03-30

Changed in mysql-5.5 (Ubuntu):
milestone:	ubuntu-12.04-beta-2 → ubuntu-12.04

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2012-03-30:

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) on 2012-03-30