MySQL Bugs: #3039: MySQL configure complains about "size of char" in SCO OS 5.0.6

Bug #3039	MySQL configure complains about "size of char" in SCO OS 5.0.6
Submitted:	2 Mar 2004 8:21	Modified:	6 Apr 2004 7:04
Reporter:	Shellas Sahib	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	3.23.49	OS:	Other (SCO OpenServer5.0.6)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
mysql: configure crashes for mySQL on SCO.
The error where it fails is:
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checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking size of char... 0
configure: error: No size for char type.
A likely cause for this could be that there isn't any
static libraries installed. You can verify this by checking if you have libm.a
in /lib, /usr/lib or some other standard place. If this is the problem,
install the static libraries and try again. If this isn't the problem,
examine config.log for possible errors. If you want to report this, use
'scripts/mysqlbug' and include at least the last 20 rows from config.log!
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And config.log is:
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configure:6450: checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h
configure:6463: gcc -c -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -belf -DSCO -belf -I/usr/lib/include conftest.c 1>&5
configure:6486: checking size of char
configure:6505: gcc -o conftest -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -belf -DSCO -I/usr/lib/include -belf -static -L/usr/lib/lib conftest.c /usr/local/lib -lcrypt -lsocket -lm /usr/local/lib 1>&5
ERROR: cannot initialize object file /usr/local/lib: I/O error: region read failed
configure: failed program was:
#line 6494 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
FILE *f=fopen("conftestval", "w");
if (!f) exit(1);
fprintf(f, "%d\n", sizeof(char));
exit(0);
}

How to repeat:
Run ./configure

Suggested fix:
Dont know

Check the settings for the following environmental variables:

CC
CXX
CFLAGS
CXXFLAGS
LDFLAGS

and similar.

You have a problem with /usr/local/lib appearing in compiler args, which is wrong. 

The error is either in env. variables or in too old MySQL.

Check the variables and try with 3.23.58 or 4.0.18.

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".