Thanks Eric, 
I took my changes and complied it on my main box. (btw your going to
want to know about the changes I made). Worked fine (gcc 2.96-98) so I'm
thinking that you're right there something wrong with my compiler
install or setup. Now I'm interested in making generic binary files
though so that I can compile it on my main box and use it on any of my
others. (anyone have any recommendations on where I should start?) I
wouldn't want it to be as complicated as our mozilla builds (where we
try to support a broad range of OSes). Any linux version should be
enough. 

Thanks, 
Carl P. 

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 08:57, Eric Thelin wrote:
> The MySQL site gives a warning on the download page about compiling with
> gcc 2.96 or gcc 3.0.  They recommend gcc 2.95.  I have just successfully
> compiled mysql 3.23.48 on gcc 3.0.1.  The problems they mention with 2.96 however are
> not with the act of compiling but random instability of the produced
> binary.
> 
> The specific error you are getting makes me wonder about your gcc
> installation.  So that would be the first thing to check.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> On 11 Feb 2002, 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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