From: Helmut Drodofsky drodofsky@internet-xs.de

I am installing snort from source. Besides of a lot of additional libraries, I needed a link ln -vfs /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so Are there reasons not to install with yum install mysql-devel ? I have found many discussions to add this link in context of installing from source, nor only for snort.

Maybe you needed to tell configure where to find the libs... $ ./configure --help | grep mysql   --with-mysql=DIR               Support for MySQL   --with-mysql-includes=DIR      MySQL include directory   --with-mysql-libraries=DIR     MySQL library directory

JD