The mysql packages do not seem to ship libmysqld.so, the library which allows
embedding the server into another program.

$ mysql_config --libmysqld-libs
-L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqld -lz -lpthread -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread -lrt
-L/usr/lib -lssl -lcrypto

$ sudo yum whatprovides /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqld.so
No Matches found


Looks like these options need to be added to configure:

  --with-embedded-server
  --with-embedded-privilege-control


$ rpm -q mysql-libs
mysql-libs-5.0.45-1.fc7

Tested this on F7, but I took a peek at the .spec in devel and the flags don't
seem to be there.