Hi, we are running the redhat large distribution, we are newbies to linux, we had exim running fine but wanted to set it up with mysql so could have a table for mailboxes etc.

we have changed the correct lines in the makefile (we believe):

LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I /usr/bin/mysql
LOOKUP_LIBS=-L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient

SUPPORT_MAILDIR=yes
LOOKUP_MYSQL=yes
AUTH_CRAM_MD5=yes
AUTH_PLAINTEXT=yes

when we try to make though we get the error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [exim] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/exim-4.50/build-Linux-i386'
make: *** [go] Error 2


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You need the MySQL development libraries package.

I'm not a RedHat guy, and I don't know what version Linode is using, but you should be able to find it. libmysql-dev or some such.

thanks very much for the help mate, I will look into that.

nobody happens to know where to get the development libraries for mysql from? They seem to be fairly hard to locate for us.

Thanks.