MySQL

[Kevin Brown]

Find the lowest common denomiator of CPUs that you want to run the binaries on
and compile for that architecture (e.g. 386, 486, 586/Pentium, 686/Pentium II,
etc...).  If both boxes are running RH7.2 then it might be easy to check what is
installed on both to see why one can compile stuff and the other can't.

rpm -qa > system1 #can compile MySQL
rpm -qa > system2 #can't compile MySQL

diff -b system1 system2

> 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.