make Spine error /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient about spine HOT 5 CLOSED

In my Centos 7 install with Maria 10.3.13 the following commands worked. Don't forget to rerun ./configure on spine after.

cd /usr/lib64
ln -s libmysqlclient.so.18.0.0 libmysqlclient.so

Spine then compiled successfully.

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This is an issue with MariaDB 10.2.7. We thought they were going to have it fixed in that release but apparantly not. Easy fix, you just have to symlink the libmysqlclient*.so of your choice to libmysqlclient.so. You can find that library in /usr/lib64/

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Is this fixed? I'm still getting errors with cacti spine 1.1.38

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It's a development environment issue, not one that we will fix. You have to ensure that the libraries are correctly linked as libmysqlclient.so. CentOS, for example, does not bother to create a symlink to any of the libmysqlclient.so.?? libraries it does install when you install the -libs package.

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Please test the develop (1.2) version. Though -lmysqlclient on most OS' works if the libraries and headers are in 'standard' locations. Again, if you are runnning MariaDB 10.x, this is likely not a Cacti issue.

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