[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing mysql-python

[Leslie Picardo]

I am running the Python 2.2.2  binary installation from fink under OS X 
10.2.3
I have also succesfully installed Mysql using fink.

I've been running into problems in installing the mysql-python package 
from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/

When I try to build

 > python setup.py build
gcc -L/sw/lib -bundle -bundle_loader /sw/bin/python 
build/temp.darwin-6.3-PowerMacintosh-2.2/_mysql.o -L/sw/lib/mysql 
-L/sw/lib -L/sw/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -o 
build/lib.darwin-6.3-PowerMacintosh-2.2/_mysql.so -flat_namespace
ld: can't locate file for: -lmysqlclient
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1


I looked through google, sourceforge, and this list and a lot of people 
seem to have hit this problem
but no one seems to have posted the solution. I can't figure out where 
the problem is. Is it  because  the
  libmysqlclient.a  library is missing ? or do I have some compiler 
flags missing  that would use the dylib
file instead ? I am confused.

Note that both the fink binary and source installation leave a dangling 
symbolic link to a non-existant
libmysqlclient.a file.

 >ls -l  /sw/lib/libmysqlclient*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 picardo  admin  22 Feb 13 16:24 /sw/lib/libmysqlclient.a 
-> mysql/libmysqlclient.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 picardo  admin  26 Feb 13 16:24 
/sw/lib/libmysqlclient.dylib -> mysql/libmysqlclient.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x  1 picardo  admin  23 Feb 13 16:24 /sw/lib/libmysqlclient.la 
-> mysql/libmysqlclient.la

 >ls -l /sw/lib/mysql
total 440
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  220488 Jan 16 07:59 
libmysqlclient.10.0.0.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin      27 Jan 24 14:55 libmysqlclient.10.dylib 
-> libmysqlclient.10.0.0.dylib

Leslie