Thanks Rod, I'll wait for the official debian-arm rpm's you make for the
mission critical servers, I'll try the suggested script on my devel machine
for now.
Marko
Rod Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Marko Dinic wrote:
>
> > I tried the rpm's. I got them from netwinder.org
> > and this is what happens when I try to alien
> > them... How did you install the rpm's?
>
> [Re: The comment about MySQL being now under the GPL, just a note, that is
> only developement branch, there have not been any "official" versions of
> MySQL released under the GPL yet. Or so I understand.]
>
> For the most part any RPMS on netwinder.org will not work on Debian. The
> reason is Debian uses a versioned glibc whereas most of the rpms on
> Netwinder.org do not. And the two are generally mutually exclusive.
>
> The following is a configure for MySQL which is known to work if you want
> to build it yourself. They key thing is add the "-fPIC" option to catch
> things (php, apache) which like to link static libraries into shared
> libraries.
>
> [I've started a build of a MySQL rpm which will/should run under Debian,
> I'll let you know when it is finished.]
>
> export CONFIG_FLAGS="--disable-assembler"
> export MYSQL_BUILD_CC="gcc"
> export MYSQL_BUILD_CXX="gcc"
> export MYSQL_BUILD_CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fsigned-char -fpic"
> export MYSQL_BUILD_CXXFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fsigned-char \
> -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fpic"
>
> sh -c 'PATH=${MYSQL_BUILD_PATH:-"/bin:/usr/bin"} \
> CC=${MYSQL_BUILD_CC:-egcs} \
> CFLAGS=${MYSQL_BUILD_CFLAGS:-"-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer"} \
> CXX=${MYSQL_BUILD_CXX:-egcs} \
> CXXFLAGS=${MYSQL_BUILD_CXXFLAGS:-"-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer \
> -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti"} \
> ./configure \
> --enable-shared \
> $CONFIG_FLAGS \
> --with-mysqld-user=%{mysqld_user} \
> --with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock \
> --prefix=/ \
> --exec-prefix=/usr \
> --libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
> --sysconfdir=/etc \
> --datadir=/usr/share \
> --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql \
> --infodir=/usr/info \
> --includedir=/usr/include \
> --mandir=/usr/man' \
> --with-comment='Official MySQL RPM'
>
> -Rms
