mysql c++ connector with default fedora mysql installation

[Danny Anderson]

Hola, Fedora folk!

Forgive me for the length of my explanation, chalk it up to trying to 
find a solution on my own first...

I installed Fedora on a machine to use as a web/database server.  As 
part of the initial OS install , I let Fedora install 
mysql-3.23.50-something in its 'default' locations.  I now want to add 
the c++ connector to the mysql installation.  I dowloaded source rpms 
from mysql.com.  I installed those and now I am following these 
instructions from linuxgems.com:

  1)patch -p1 -d mysql++-1.7.9 < mysql++-gcc-3.0.patch
  2)patch -p1 -d mysql++-1.7.9 < mysql++-gcc-3.2.patch
  3)patch -p1 -d mysql++-1.7.9 < mysql++-gcc-3.2.2.patch
  4)patch -p1 -d mysql++-1.7.9 < mysql++-prefix.patch
  5)patch -p1 -d mysql++-1.7.9 < mysql++-versionfix.patch
  6)cd mysql++-1.7.9
  7)rm Makefile.in aclocal.m4 build.sh config.guess config.h
    config.status config.sub configure install-sh libtool ltconfig
    ltmain.sh missing mkinstalldirs stamp* examples/Makefile.in
    sqlplusint/Makefile.in
  8)libtoolize
  9)aclocal
10)automake --foreign --add-missing
11)autoconf
12)./configure
13)make


I cannot get this to work.  I either choke on the prefix patch or, if I 
skip that patch, I choke on the ./configure step looking for the mysql 
components installation.

//--->Errors applying prefix patch:
$ patch -p1 -d mysql++-1.7.9 < mysql++-prefix.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- mysql++-1.7.9q/Makefile    2002-10-17 00:12:00.000000000 +0200
|+++ mysql++-1.7.9/Makefile     2002-10-17 15:10:15.000000000 +0200
--------------------------
File to patch:  <---//cursor waiting for file input
this is the third line of the prefix patch:
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@


//--->Errors on configure if I skip the prefix patch:
checking for MySQL library directory... configure: error: Didn't find 
the mysql library dir in ''




Has anybody out there experienced this and found a workaround?  Any 
useful comments and suggestion appreciated.

Thanks!
Danny