MySQL Bugs: #11576: Can't compile 4.0 w/FC 4

Bug #11576	Can't compile 4.0 w/FC 4
Submitted:	25 Jun 2005 21:53	Modified:	19 Oct 2005 23:32
Reporter:	Jorge del Conde	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	4.0	OS:	Linux (Linux - Fedora 4)
Assigned to:	Jim Winstead	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
I can't get past the configure stage in mysql 4.0.

running ./configure [options] produces the following error:

checking "LinuxThreads" ... "Not Found"
configure: error: This is a linux system and Linuxthreads was not found.  On linux Linuxthreads should be used.  Please install Linuxthreads (or a new glibc) and try again.  See the Installation chapter in the Reference Manual for more information.

Obviously, glibc is the newest available, and Linuxthreads *is* installed.

Neither 4.1 or 5.0 had this problem.

How to repeat:
read above

Not that it will help any, but I've run into the exact same error.

I tried these too:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql  --with-mit-threads=/usr/include
get
"END OF INNODB CONFIGURATION
Configuring MIT Pthreads
./configure: line 33690: cd: mit-pthreads: No such file or directory"

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-named-thread-libs=/usr/include
and
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-mit-threads=/usr/include/linuxthreads --with-named-thread-libs=/usr/include
and
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-mit-threads=/usr/include --with-named-thread-libs=/usr/include
get same error for all three
"checking size of char... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (char), 77
See 'config.log' for more details."

Looks like the same issue as:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=9497

A work-around should be:

"add somewhere "Linuxthreads" in /usr/include/pthread.h"

A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/internals/31267

The patch can be used to get 4.0 to compile 4.0 on FC4, but this is not a configuration we will support, and the patch will not ever be incorporated into the 4.0 tree. MySQL 4.1 and later work just fine on FC4, and 4.1 has been the recommended production release for nearly a year now.