(changed so as to not give away the password).
And after taking those steps, I still find find no MySQL support in the bacula-dir binary!!
[root@ops:/etc/bacula] #ldd $(which bacula-dir) | grep mysql
[root@ops:/etc/bacula] #
[root@ops:/etc/bacula] #ldd $(which bacula-dir)
libbacfind-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/
libbacfind-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaaaab8000)
libbacsql-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/
libbacsql-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaaacc5000)
libbaccats-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/
libbaccats-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaaaeee000)
libbaccfg-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/
libbaccfg-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaab0f5000)
libbac-7.0.5.so => /usr/lib64/
libbac-7.0.5.so (0x00002aaaab2ff000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002aaaab568000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab785000)
libwrap.so.0 => /lib64/libwrap.so.0 (0x00002aaaab989000)
libssl.so.6 => /lib64/libssl.so.6 (0x00002aaaabb92000)
libcrypto.so.6 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.6 (0x00002aaaabde1000)
libcap.so.1 => /lib64/libcap.so.1 (0x00002aaaac132000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002aaaac336000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002aaaac637000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaac8ba000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaacac8000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00002aaaace22000)
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00002aaaad07d000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib64/libnsl.so.1 (0x00002aaaad292000)
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00002aaaad4aa000)
libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00002aaaad6d8000)
libcom_err.so.2 => /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00002aaaad96e000)
libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00002aaaadb70000)
libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00002aaaadd96000)
libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00002aaaadf9e000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00002aaaae1a0000)
libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00002aaaae3b6000)
libsepol.so.1 => /lib64/libsepol.so.1 (0x00002aaaae5ce000)
Thanks for the suggestions. Wondering where to go from here.. ! :)