From: Dan Nelson
Date: March 24 2003 4:37pm
Subject: Re: building MySQL on Alpha-Dec-OSF4 with gcc
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In the last episode (Mar 24), Ralf Hupfer said:
> I do face problems building MySQL 3.22.32 with gcc 3.2.2 on an Alpha-
> DEC-OSF4 workstation.
> 
> CC="cc -pthread" CXX="cxx -pthread -O" ./configure  --with-named-thread-libs="-lpthread -lmach -lexc -lc" --with-low-memory
> 
> Everything run's smoothly, till mysqld is to be build. The linker produces:
> 
> The complete output when linking follows:
> 
> gnumake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/users/hupfer/build/mysql-3.22.32/sql'
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -
> D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O3 -
> DDBUG_OFF -O3 -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti  -fno-

This should have read "/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link cxx".  You can't
link C++ programs with $CC; you need to use $CXX.  It looks like a typo
in one of MySQL's Makefiles.

Also, consider building MySQL 3.23.55 or 4.0.12 instead of 3.22.32.

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	Dan Nelson
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