From: Warren Young Date: October 4 2005 11:06am Subject: Re: Installation of mysql++ with SuSE 9.3 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/5010 Message-Id: <43426243.20909@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matthias Braun wrote: > LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) /usr/local/lib/libmysqlpp.so You shouldn't specify library files directly like that. It's probably the reason your linker is picking up the old version Chris noticed. Say "-L/usr/local/lib -lmysqlpp" instead. The linker should then be smart enough to use the most recent "libmysqlpp*".