MySQL Bugs: #17225: Server fails to build if no transactional engines are enabled

Bug #17225	Server fails to build if no transactional engines are enabled
Submitted:	8 Feb 2006 4:26	Modified:	10 Feb 2006 2:36
Reporter:	Greg Lehey	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	current 5.0	OS:	FreeBSD (FreeBSD)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
This bug became apparent while I was looking at BUG#14286.  If the source tree is configured
to not build any transactional engine, a number of source files fail to compile.

How to repeat:
./configure --without-innodb --without-berkeley-db --without-ndbcluster
make

I was unable to repeat this issue with current BK's source. So looks
already fixed:

miguel@hegel:~/t> cd 5.0/
miguel@hegel:~/t/5.0> bin/mysql -uroot
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 5.0.19

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> show variables like "%have%";
+-----------------------+-------+
| Variable_name         | Value |
+-----------------------+-------+
| have_archive          | NO    |
| have_bdb              | NO    |
| have_blackhole_engine | NO    |
| have_compress         | YES   |
| have_crypt            | YES   |
| have_csv              | NO    |
| have_example_engine   | NO    |
| have_federated_engine | NO    |
| have_geometry         | YES   |
| have_innodb           | NO    |
| have_isam             | NO    |
| have_ndbcluster       | NO    |
| have_openssl          | NO    |
| have_query_cache      | YES   |
| have_raid             | NO    |
| have_rtree_keys       | YES   |
| have_symlink          | YES   |
+-----------------------+-------+
17 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>

Hi,

The method I applied was your how to repeat instructions:

./configure --without-innodb --without-berkeley-db --without-ndbcluster
make

and notice with the latest BK source.

Verified on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE/i386 (really AMD 32) and Linux 2.6 on AMD 64.  This problem appears to be related to incorrect configuration assumptions about availability of the readline library, which of course has nothing to do with the absence of transactional engines.

Premlinary investigation shows that the configuration file generated by the sameple config call has multiple differences from the normal config file.  In particular, READLINE is not included.

This is a marginal glitch in the build process.  After reconfiguring in the manner described, it is necessary to run a 'make clean' before building.  If this is done, the problem will not occur.

Arguably, this is a bug in the build process.  I don't think that it's serious enough by itself to leave it open.  Any review of the build process should take it into account, however.