Bug #30967 Please add some info regarding build problems on RHEL / FC
Submitted: 12 Sep 2007 7:33 Modified: 15 Nov 2007 7:56
Reporter: Simon Mudd (OCA) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Proxy: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:237 (0.6.1) OS:Linux
Assigned to: MC Brown CPU Architecture:Any

[12 Sep 2007 7:33] Simon Mudd 
Description:
It would be useful if you add some comments about building issues and compatibility with Red Hat Linuxes (Enterprise and Fedora):

RHEL5:
- requires lua-5.1, OS version lua-5.0. Solution: Rebuild lua-5.1 src.rpm from FC7 or later

RHEL4:
- requires lua-5.1, OS version lua-5.0. Solution: Rebuild lua-5.1 src.rpm from FC7 or later
- glib2 >= 2.6.0, OS version 2.4.7. Solution: unknown

How to repeat:
Read INSTALL
[12 Sep 2007 8:37] Jan Kneschke 
We are uploading the binaries right now which are staticly linked and run on all Linuxes.
[12 Sep 2007 11:21] MySQL Verification Team 
Thank you for the bug report.
[15 Nov 2007 7:56] MC Brown 
This is not really a mysql-proxy issue - this is an issue with the operating system not supporting and/or not providing the latest version of the required libraries. Adding the information on how to get a specific platform combination to build third-party libraries is beyond the scope of the MySQL proxy manual.  We provide statically linked binaries that will work on platforms without requiring the specific components and these should be used if you are unable to build proxy by hand. 

I've added a note to the documentation to highlight the fact that on certain platforms the required components may need to be manually compiled and that binary versions of the packages are available if you have problems and/or are unable to build these required components.