MySQL Spatial requirements for Linux

[Eduardo Patto Kanegae]

Hi,

What are the MySQL Spatial Extensions requirements for linux ?

Spatial support in MySQL is like PostGIS?  ( a separated package that
you extract and build against a PostgreSQL installation)

Or MySQL Spatial Extensions is an "--option" from ./configure command?

thanks in advance.

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