Hi George, I think the MySQL-Max RPM is dynamically linked (all -max binaries actually) if you want to give it a try.
Hope that helps. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Chelidze" Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 9:18 AM Subject: CREATE FUNCTION problem > Hello, I have created new udf function which converts time from NTP > format to timestamp. I compile it with the following command: > > gcc -Wall -shared -o ntp2timestamp.so ntp2timestamp.cc > > with no errors. > > Then I copy this file to /usr/local/mysql (libmysql* files are located > here and /etc/ld.so.conf file contains this path as well) and execute > the following under mysql: > > CREATE FUNCTION ntp2timestamp RETURNS STRING SONAME "ntp2timestamp.so"; > > and I get an error: > > ERROR 1126: Can't open shared library 'ntp2timestamp.so' (errno: 22 > ntp2timestamp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file o) > > MySQL is installed from RPM and I have found that it might be > configured with --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static instead of > --withmysqld-ldflags=-rdynamic and I dought this is the problem but I > ahve also found the following sentence in manual: > > -- cut here -- > For mysqld to be able to use UDF functions, you should con gure MySQL > with --withmysqld- ldflags=-rdynamic The reason is that to on many > platforms (including Linux) you can load a dynamic library (with > dlopen()) from a static linked program, which you would get if you are > using --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static If you want to Chapter 9: > Extending MySQL 559 use an UDF that needs to access symbols from mysqld > (like the methaphone example in `sql/udf_example.cc' that uses > default_charset_info), you must link the program with -rdynamic (see man > dlopen). > -- cut here -- > > so is it nessesary to configure it with --with-mysqld-ldflags=-rdynamic? > I'd like it to be installed from RPM rather source code, is there > another workaround? Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > > -- > George Chelidze -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
