I'll look into this too.  I've never done a ./configure thing before.

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Bas Meijer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> I want to try to include Ken's mysql patch into the Swish-E I inlude 
> with Lookup
> (http://bas.antraciet.nl/lookup). I want to generate the swish-e 
> Makefile with autoconf configure. My configure.in checks for mysql 
> like this, but I dont know how to 'find' libdir and the directory 
> that holds mysql.h, so now libdir and myheaderdir are hardcoded in 
> Makefile.in (for Linux). Does someone know how to autoconf mysql??
> 
> 
> Bas Meijer
> 
> # from configure.in
> dnl Checks for header files.
> AC_CHECK_HEADERS(strings.h unistd.h mysql/mysql.h)
> dnl Check for MySQL
> AC_CHECK_LIB(mysqlclient,mysql_init)
> 
> # from Makefil.in
> libdir = /usr/lib
> myheaderdir = /usr/include/mysql
> 
> 
> At 13:28 -0700 11-10-2000, Ken Berland wrote:
> >I've patched swish-1.3 to accept data from mysql.  The .conf file params
> >look like this:
> >
> >MysqlRules host your-mysql-host
> >MysqlRules database your-db-name
> >MysqlRules username your-mysql-username
> >MysqlRules password your-password
> >MysqlRules table name-of-table
> >MysqlRules title-column unused-right-now
> >MysqlRules primary-key column-with-primary-key
> >MysqlRules data-column column-with-text-date
> >
> >I think all the params are necesary, but I'm not sure.  This has been a
> >pretty quick exercise.
> >
> >It needs to be integrated into the distibution, but seems to work.
> >
> >1) Unpack the swish-efiles.1.3.2.tar.gz distribution.
> >2) copy mysql.c into $DISTRO/src/
> >3) apply the included patch.  I did a patch -p0 < sp.diff from $DISTRO
> >4) Edit the makefile to point to your mysql dir. mine is /usr/local/mysql/
> >5) make
> >
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