- applied fix from 4.0 configure.in required to build shared libraries

with static glibc installed

configure.in

@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(other-libc,
      # we need special flags, but we will have to add those later
      STATIC_NSS_FLAGS="-lc -lnss_files -lnss_dns -lresolv"
      STATIC_NSS_FLAGS="$STATIC_NSS_FLAGS $STATIC_NSS_FLAGS"
-     OTHER_LIBC_LIB="-L$other_libc_lib"
+     OTHER_LIBC_LIB="-static -L$other_libc_lib"
      static_nss=1
    else
      # this is a dirty hack. We if we detect static nss glibc in the special
@@ -529,7 +529,6 @@ fi
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(server-suffix,
     [  --with-server-suffix    Append value to the version string.],
-    # I heard that 'cut' isn't portable.  Isn't there a better way?
     [ MYSQL_SERVER_SUFFIX=`echo "$withval" | sed -e  's/^\(...................................\)..*$/\1/'` ],
     [ MYSQL_SERVER_SUFFIX= ]
     )
@@ -2122,10 +2121,7 @@ then
   AC_DEFINE(THREAD_SAFE_CLIENT)
 fi
 
-if test "$static_nss" = "1"
-then
-  CLIENT_LIBS="$CLIENT_LIBS $STATIC_NSS_FLAGS"
-fi  
+CLIENT_LIBS="$CLIENT_LIBS $STATIC_NSS_FLAGS"
 
 AC_SUBST(CLIENT_LIBS)
 AC_SUBST(sql_client_dirs)
@@ -2275,11 +2271,8 @@ fi
 # I know to add the static NSS magic if we have static NSS libraries with
 # glibc - Sasha
 
-if test "$static_nss" = "1"
-then
- LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -static $OTHER_LIBC_LIB" 
- LIBS="$LIBS $STATIC_NSS_FLAGS"
-fi  
+LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $OTHER_LIBC_LIB"
+LIBS="$LIBS $STATIC_NSS_FLAGS"
 
 AC_SUBST(sql_server_dirs)
 AC_SUBST(thread_dirs)