Sorry for the delayed response.
> A wild possibility is that, because the fc2 binaries were built on a
> system with MySQL 4.0.20 installed, the MySQL++ library is showing that
> version. To test this possibility, rebulid the library from source and
> see if the result changes. If it does, I'd be interested to know.
It does. I have built the 1.72 SRC RPM and dbinfo reports: -
MySQL version: 3.23.58
and no errors.
>
> > MySQL-shared-3.23.58-1
>
> I'm curious, what does "rpm -ql MySQL-shared |grep lib" say?
rpm -ql MySQL-shared |grep lib
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.10
/usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.10.0.0
Just a small comment but the README file has disappeared from examples.
It's quite useful for us beginners.
Thanks for the help
Giles