[Nix-dev] mysql libraries

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

The mysql derivation builds it's libraries in

...mysql-5.0.77/lib/mysql

rather than in

...mysql-5.0.77/lib

This means that when I set mysql as a build input the NIX_LDFLAGS gets a 
-L...mysql-5.0.77/lib and thus cannot find the libraries which are 
actually located in -L...mysql-5.0.77/lib/mysql

My workaround is to export LDFLAGS="${mysql}/lib/mysql" in my preconfigure 
phase.  This is the same thing that the opendbx derivation does.  This 
works, but it is kinda a pain.  For example propagateBuildInputs = 
[mysql]; won't really do anything useful.

Wouldn't it be better if we had mysql build its libs into the $out/lib/
directory instead of the $out/lib/mysql/ directory?

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