seems that the problem to compiling shib with the embedded mysql server
is not in the shib configuration but in the mysql_config script
distributed with mysql. this script lists the libraries needed to link
the mysqld embedded server and seems to ommit "-lz" (the compression
library) for the libs needed to link the embedded server. adding this lib
to the shib ./configure script works around this problem. you can simply
do a:
LDLIBS=-lz ./configure ...
This seems to be a problem with the 4.1.10 mysql rpm from mysql.com and
doesn't fix itself even when I build the rpm locally.
