Bug #21264 request change to build thread-safe client when building only client libraries

• Submitted: 25 Jul 2006 5:38
• Modified: 11 Sep 2018 12:59
• Reporter: Mark Johnson (Basic Quality Contributor)
• Status: Won't fix
• Category: MySQL Server: Compiling
• Severity: S4 (Feature request)
• Version: 5.0.22
• OS: Linux (linux 2.6.15/Slackware 10.2)
• CPU Architecture: Any

[25 Jul 2006 5:38] Mark Johnson

Description:
When building the MyODBC connector, it requires the thread-safe client library.  However, "configure --without-server" by default only builds the nonthread-safe client.  It would be more convenient if it built both thread-safe and non-thread-safe versions.

How to repeat:
See description.

Suggested fix:
Please change behaviour of "configure --without-server" to be equivalent to "configure --without-server --enable-thread-safe-client".  i.e. make "--enable-thread-safe-client" the default behaviour when building only the client libraries.

[25 Jul 2006 8:52] Tonci Grgin

Hi Mark. I've been following your thread. It seems to me this should be in connector/ODBC category not server. If so, please change synopsis accordingly.

[25 Jul 2006 9:57] Mark Johnson

I disagree that this should be in MyODBC.  It is a change to the client only  build of the MySQL package that I am requesting.  When compiling MySQL client libraries the default is to build only the non-thread-safe version.  However, MyODBC depends upon the thread-safe version.  

The suggestion of changing the default of MySQL to build both thread-safe and non-thread-safe client libraries is for the sake of convenience, motivated by this dependency of MyODBC.  However, it is a change to the MySQL package and not to the MyODBC package being requested.

[26 Jul 2006 18:39] Valeriy Kravchuk

I think this is a reasonable feature request.

[22 Apr 2007 6:00] Cal Peake

Here's a simple two part hack to allow '--without-server' and '--enable-thread-safe-client' to coexist. Part 1 of the hack requires one to pass '--without-extra-tools' to 'configure' when building (doesn't change what would normally be built or installed, just keeps the build from breaking). Part 2 is this patch that applies to 'configure' itself. The patch was made against mysql-5.0.37.

--- ./configure~orig    2007-03-05 14:23:27.000000000 -0500
+++ ./configure 2007-04-22 01:01:07.000000000 -0400
@@ -41133,7 +41133,7 @@
 export CC CXX CFLAGS CXXFLAGS LD LDFLAGS AR
 ac_configure_args="$ac_configure_args CFLAGS='$CFLAGS' CXXFLAGS='$CXXFLAGS'"
 
-if test "$with_server" = "yes" -o "$THREAD_SAFE_CLIENT" != "no"
+if test "$with_server" = "yes"
 then
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF

[11 Sep 2018 12:59] Dyre Tjeldvoll

Posted by developer:
 
This issue is no longer relevant. After the transition to CMake the client libs are always built thread-safe.