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Terry> I had a look through the debugging chapter of the manual and used the
Terry> configure line suggested there:
Terry> CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O6" CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="-O6 -felide-constructors
Terry> -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" ./configure
Terry> and this seemed to do the trick.
Terry> As I said, we are using gcc2.95.1 which had only recently been
Terry> upgraded. Still not sure what the problem was but using the above line did
Terry> fix it. My c/c++ is non existent, are there any implications for running a
Terry> production server with a mysqld configured with this command line (what do
Terry> all of the options mean)?
Hi!
It tells to gcc to compile a very optimized MySQL server and skip a
lot of stuff that may break things..
The above is the recommended configure line for get an efficient and
secure MySQL server!-O2;
Terry> Many thanks to all for pointing me in the right direction.
Terry> Terry
Regards,
Monty