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Setting up a server and can't find libmysqlclient under /usr

I am currently setting up a PHP 5.2 server (yes I know, but it is actually needed in this case) but I keep getting an error:

configure: error: Cannot find libmysqlclient under /usr.

The command that I am running is:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql --with-libdir

I have installed libmysqlclient and when I run

locate libmysqlclient

I get results returned, although none of them are the file libmysqlclient (the closest is libmysqlclient.a)

I would greatly appreciate any help that can be provided.

Solution

  • Try using the DIR directive

    --with-mysql --with-libdir=/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

    From Cannot find libmysqlclient under /usr. while build PHP 5.2 from source on Ubuntu 12.4

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