Glenn,

this is the reason why it makes no sense to me. Here is the size of the libraries,

-rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 1685 Nov 10 23:59 libmysql.imp -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 1993078 Nov 10 23:59 libmysqlclient.a -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 1899136 Nov 10 23:59 libmysqlclient_r.a -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 12319666 Nov 10 23:59 libmysqld.a -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 1260254 Nov 10 23:59 libmystrings.a -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 766332 Nov 10 23:59 libmysys.a

and here is the include files,

-rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 27526 Nov 10 23:58 mysql.h -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 15042 Nov 10 23:58 mysql_com.h -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 1241 Nov 10 23:58 mysql_embed.h -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 1559 Nov 10 23:58 mysql_time.h -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 800 Nov 10 23:58 mysql_version.h -rw------- 1 jicman mailguest 11315 Nov 10 23:58 mysqld_error.h

There should be a simple mysqllib tar file that will allow a --prefix option on the configure shell script to install the files using the prefix that the user wants to use.

This is why one should not need to install the full DB server or even client just to get these files.

Just a thought, of course. :-) I don't know how big the mysql libraries and include files are, but I don't think it should be more than database