David, I'm definitely NOT a MakeMaker expert, so I can't help with
why that is rejecting the static lib. You probably already know this
method of solving shared library linking problems, but here it is
just in case you don't:
Do these commands as "root"
1) do a "locate mysqlclient.so"
Perl: 5.6.1
OS: Solaris 2.8
MySQL:3.23.45
I'm getting the dreaded:
"failed:: can't load 'blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/msyql.so"
I read in the documentation that this is happening because, even though
the -L switch is pointing to the correct location, it can't load
libmysqlclient.so. So I tried the st
