PureFTP "Your MySQL client libraries aren't properly installed"

I'm trying to install PureFTP which normally installs without a problem and I keep getting errors. I installed MySQL to /opt/mysql from source and I'm using this command to setup PureFTP

Code:

./configure --with-mysql=/opt/mysql

and I get this output

Code:

checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... yes
checking whether mysql clients can run... no
configure: error: Your MySQL client libraries aren't properly installed

I've tried symlinking my library files to /usr/lib, /usr/lib/mysql and /opt/mysql/lib (they are in /opt/mysql/lib/mysql). I've had no luck.

 

Can you try

Code:

./configure --with-mysql=/opt

instead?

 

Exact same error

ls -la /opt/mysql/lib/mysql

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   10666 May 16 07:32 libdbug.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  737114 May 16 07:32 libheap.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3356062 May 16 07:32 libmyisam.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1075498 May 16 07:32 libmyisammrg.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3697620 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1080 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3745678 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient_r.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1134 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient_r.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient_r.so -> libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient_r.so.16 -> libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2138302 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient_r.so.16.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      24 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient.so -> libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      24 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient.so.16 -> libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2111094 May 16 07:32 libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1009442 May 16 07:32 libmystrings.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1767552 May 16 07:32 libmysys.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   76106 May 16 07:32 libvio.a
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 May 16 07:32 plugin

 

Could this be a possible error caused by a 64 bit os? Maybe incompatibilities in the library files, if so, on which program's side? Since they are both compiled from source I doubt this is an issue

 

I installed postfix and tried using that instead and I get the same error for Postgresql. What is going on here?

Fixed it. All I had to do was copy the files to /usr/lib64

Code:

cp /opt/mysql/lib/mysql/* /usr/lib64