To reply to my own problem, my confusion stems from the change from
my_thread_init() in MySQL version 3.x to mysql_thread_init() in
version 4.x. Fair enough, but my_thread_init is still supported
in version 4.x. So, should developers who wish to write the most
portable code use my_thread_init(
I am porting a multi-threaded MySQL client application that is currently
working fine on my development Solaris box to multiple platforms.
For some reason that I cannot figure out, my autoconf script is
failing on Linux looking for the mysql_thread_init() function in
libmysqlclient_r. From the c
