MySQL Bugs: #1661: Compiling --with-pstack fails with binutils 2.13.90

Bug #1661	Compiling --with-pstack fails with binutils 2.13.90
Submitted:	25 Oct 2003 5:49	Modified:	4 Mar 2004 6:32
Reporter:	Johan Backlund	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	4.x	OS:	Linux (RedHat 9)
Assigned to:	Bugs System	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Compiling server with --with-pstack doesn't work with binutils 2.13.90 and later. Apparently, a typedef previously named boolean has been renamed bfd_boolean in binutils and this type is used in the pstack source. Also, the true/false values have been renamed to TRUE/FALSE.
I am not sure the exact binutils release that got this change. I am reporting it on the version I have got installed on my RedHat 9 system.

How to repeat:
Make sure you have binutils-2.13.90 or later installed. Configure your favorite MySQL 4.x source using the --with-pstack option and the make it.

Suggested fix:
Make the following changes in the pstack source:

boolean -> bfd_boolean
true -> TRUE
false -> FALSE

with a version guard macro based on the installed binutils version. I guess it could also be solved by introducing a local definition of boolean in the pstack which would be activated when a newer binutil package is used.

I got same resutl with binutils-2.14.90

$ rpm -q binutils
binutils-2.14.90.0.4-19

./configure --with-pstack
make

...

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./../include -I../include    -O3 -DDBUG_OFF  -c `test -f 'bucomm.c' || echo './'`bucomm.c
In file included from bucomm.c:26:
bucomm.h:66: error: parse error before "boolean"
bucomm.c: In function `print_arelt_descr':
bucomm.c:155: error: parse error before "boolean"

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