From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 27 5:15:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from imul.math.uni.lodz.pl (imul.math.uni.lodz.pl [212.191.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7C537B71B for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 05:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dagoon@math.uni.lodz.pl) Received: by imul.math.uni.lodz.pl (Mail Transport Agent, from userid 1168) id A6FF91F3E; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:14:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imul.math.uni.lodz.pl (Mail Transport Agent) with ESMTP id 97DE317425; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:14:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:14:14 +0100 (CET) From: Marcin Gryszkalis To: Bernd Walter Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Jim King , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MySQL 3.23 success? In-Reply-To: <20010201184920.A58884@cicely5.cicely.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Feb 1 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:52:04AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Jim King writes: > > > Has anybody been able to get MySQL 3.23 to run on -stable? I had to fix a > > > long/int conflict to get it to compile, and then when it tries to install > > > 'mysql_install_db' spits out an error message (I think from mysqld) about > > > "fast mutexes not supported on this platform". It installed and ran OK on > > > an x86 box this afternoon. :-( > > You might want to look at the netbsd-alpha mailing list archives and > > or pkgsrc (their equiv of ports). think somebody over there was > > working on running mysql on alpha, but I don't remember how far they > > got. > I asume the question was dedicated to version 3.23. > I'm running 3.22 without problems. hello I had the same problem, after some search I found the reason: - bdb (Berkeley DataBase) is not supported on non-intel platforms yet (as they say it'll be in future). So, linux/sparc users have same problem. To fix it '--without-berkeley-db' switch should be specified in Makefile (as configure option), and everything works ok. greetings marcin -- .d$$$$b, $d$$$$b. .d$$$$b, Marcin Gryszkalis $$' `"" $$' `"' $$' `$$ $$. .ss $$ $$ $$ (...) QED. (QED translates from the Latin `"8$$8"' 88 88 88 as "So what?") To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message