[Nix-dev] Re: Re: mysql libraries

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Marc Weber wrote:

> Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Thu Sep 16 06:44:46 +0200
> 2010:
>> It's better to ask mysql_config for gcc flags.
> Did you miss the point that NIX_CFLAGS is not build up by mysql_config -
> but that its used all over nixpkgs ?
> 
> As I said in the earlier thread I couldn't find any other package having
> similar header files - so collisions are somewhat unlikely but possible.
> 
> So should we run a mysql_config in a hook then to add mysql includes to
> the NIX* env vars?
I just wonder why upstream build systems don't ask mysql_config for required 
CFLAGS.
> 
> Marc Weber