Description:
Instructions in the configure --help section suggest that CFLAGS and LDFLAGS will be considered during the scripted configuration.  In order to compile 64 bit on Linux on POWER with a 64bit gcc toolchain, the -m64 flag must be passed to gcc and ld.  With $CFLAGS=-m64 and $LDFLAGS=-m64, only the CFLAGS env variable is applied.  The result is that the makefiles do not append the -m64 flag to the linker commands, and the linker cannot generate 64bit binaries from the objects created by the compiler.

How to repeat:
export $CFLAGS=-m64
export $LDFLAGS=-m64
./configure
make

When the linker commands begin, error messages will be generated, e.g.:

/usr/bin/ld: warning: powerpc:common64 architecture of input file `my_seek.lo' is incompatible with powerpc:common output

Suggested fix:
Configure script needs to be examined and repaired to consider LDFLAGS.

Have you tried passing this via the configure options --with-mysqld-ldflags, --with-client-ldflags and --with-lib-ccflags?

If that passes correctly, I would like to change this to a feature request.

Thank you.

your "how to repeat" is broken. Is it *exactly* what you typed in the shell ?

The correct syntax is

export CFLAGS=-m64
export LDFLAGS=-m64

note the absense of the dollar sign.

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