Joseph M. Hinkle writes:
> In case it is of value to anyone:
>
> Going over the output of 'configure' I noticed it reported 'LinuxThreads
> Not found' which was odd considering it is part of the Slackware
> installation package.
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> Come to find out that check looks for the string "Linuxthreads" in
> /usr/include/pthread.h. Looking at that include, it lacks the header
> containing that string (and the GPL notice) and the whole file doesn't seem
> to amount to much.
> Looking at the library itself, it is half the size of the one compiled from
> linuxthreads-0.7.1.tgz, and it is even labelled differently,
> 'libpthread.0.7.so' instead of 'libpthread.so.0.7'
> Even though MySQL here (3.22.25) compiled and ran, it could be missing
> something, so I'd recommend users of this flavor of Linux obtain the source
> package of linuxthreads-0.7.1.tgz and compile and install it themselves.
>
> 'configure' also reports 'perl5... no'
> I can't readily follow how that check is made, but '/usr/lib/perl5' exists,
> and /usr/bin/perl5.00502 (and the soft link 'perl') from the base
> installation. I can't yet tell if the false 'no' report is important.
>
> There were just a few warnings on compilation:
> libmysql.c: extern declaration of getpwuid doesn't match global one
> pthread/sleep.h: ANSI C++ forbids implicit conversion from 'void *' in
> arguments
> (This one will stop compilation until you remove '-Werror' from
> mit-pthreads/GNUMakefile)
> my_thr_init.c: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
> And in references to field.h, many complaints:
> field.h: implicit declaration of function 'int bzero(...)'
> Also
> item_strfunc.cc: implicit declaration of function 'int crypt(..)'
> mysqld.cc: implicit declaration of functions 'int chroot(), gethostname()'
> sql_base.cc & log.cc: implicit declaration of function 'int bcmp()'
>
> jmh
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Hi!
Regarding Linuxthreads they are a part of the standard glibc package.
Your Slackware does not have it, so please, install it !!
Sinisa
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