checking size of short... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77

configure:20803: checking size of short
configure:21122: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/include/mysql -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv   -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient_r -lz -lpthread -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread -L/usr/lib -lssl -lcrypto -lmystrings conftest.c  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient_r
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:21125: $? = 1
configure: program exited with status 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| #define PACKAGE "xbtt"
| #define VERSION "1.0.0"
| #define BUILD_DATE "Sat Aug  9 05:21:51 CEST 2008"
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C" void std::exit (int) throw (); using std::exit;
| #endif
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_EPOLL_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H 1
| #define HAVE_FCNTL_H 1
| #define HAVE_NETDB_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_ARPA_INET_H 1
| #define HAVE_NETINET_IN_H 1
| #define HAVE_ERRNO_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_ZLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_SIGNAL_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| #include <stdio.h>
| #if HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
| # include <sys/types.h>
| #endif
| #if HAVE_SYS_STAT_H
| # include <sys/stat.h>
| #endif
| #if STDC_HEADERS
| # include <stdlib.h>
| # include <stddef.h>
| #else
| # if HAVE_STDLIB_H
| #  include <stdlib.h>
| # endif
| #endif
| #if HAVE_STRING_H
| # if !STDC_HEADERS && HAVE_MEMORY_H
| #  include <memory.h>
| # endif
| # include <string.h>
| #endif
| #if HAVE_STRINGS_H
| # include <strings.h>
| #endif
| #if HAVE_INTTYPES_H
| # include <inttypes.h>
| #else
| # if HAVE_STDINT_H
| #  include <stdint.h>
| # endif
| #endif
| #if HAVE_UNISTD_H
| # include <unistd.h>
| #endif
| long longval () { return (long) (sizeof (short)); }
| unsigned long ulongval () { return (long) (sizeof (short)); }
| #include <stdio.h>
| #include <stdlib.h>
| int
| main ()
| {
|
|   FILE *f = fopen ("conftest.val", "w");
|   if (! f)
|     exit (1);
|   if (((long) (sizeof (short))) < 0)
|     {
|       long i = longval ();
|       if (i != ((long) (sizeof (short))))
|       exit (1);
|       fprintf (f, "%ld\n", i);
|     }
|   else
|     {
|       unsigned long i = ulongval ();
|       if (i != ((long) (sizeof (short))))
|       exit (1);
|       fprintf (f, "%lu\n", i);
|     }
|   exit (ferror (f) || fclose (f) != 0);
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:21140: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77