On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:01 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:

Tobias Powalowski wrote:

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Hi i tried to build amarok2 this weekend and it's a real hassle to get it compiled, qt needs to be rebuilt with an other patch, 2 depends need to be added and mysql needs to be built with -fPIC option to get it build correct. I prepared everything and amarok2 runs fine now.

Are there any mysql experts who can tell me if this hurts existing databases? Thanks for your answers.

Wasn't there concerns about a performance hit in mysql when compiled with -fPIC?

Does the whole MySQL require recompiling with -fPIC, or is libmysqlclient enough?