rpm suggests you are using RH or Mandrake.  You need glibc-devel to compile
programs.

Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
> Has anyone played with compiling mySQL latly? I made some of what I
> thought were simple code changes but I can't get it to compile with gcc
> 2.96 so I went back and tried to compile the source before my changes
> and I relized that I installed it from rpm (don't know how *THAT*
> happened). So I tried to install from source over it. but its still
> telling me the same error.
> configure error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler
> cannot create executables.
> 
> I *really* don't think its my code this time (though I am checking now).
> Does anyone know if mySQL has a problem with gcc2.96? ( I know there
> were problems with 3.0). Or can anyone think of another reason why it
> wouldn't compile?
> 
> Carl completlylosttoday Parrish.
> 
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