Bug #793 Compilation of 4.1.0-alpha fails when using --with-client-ldflags

Description:
I have tried building mysql 4.1.0-alpha with the following configuration:
- redhat linux 8.0
- gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
- GNU Make version 3.79.1 built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu
- 512MB ram
- more than enough disk space

when I add the "--with-client-ldflags=-all-static --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static" options to "configure", i get the following error message when i run mysql_install_db:

Installing privilege tables
mysqld got signal 11;
...
key_buffer_size=8388600
read_buffer_size=131072
sort_buffer_size=2097144
max_used_connections=0
max_connections=100
threads_connected=1
...

I have succeeded in building (and using) 4.1.0-alpha without the "--with-client-ldflags=-all-static --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static" options (the reason I've been trying with these options is that they're listed in INSTALL-SOURCE as the options used to compile the distribution binaries).

The same error occurs when prepending the line with:
  CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentiumpro" CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentiumpro -felide-constructors"

How to repeat:
1) download mysql-4.1.0-alpha.tar.gz 
2) tar zxvf mysql-4.1.0-alpha.tar.gz 
3) cd mysql-4.1.0-alpha 
4) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-extra-charsets=complex --enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile --enable-assembler --disable-shared --with-client-ldflags=-all-static --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static
5) make 
6) su 
7) make install 
8) ./scripts/mysql_install_db 

Suggested fix:
Possible problems:
1)  the documentation is out of date
2)  these options don't work with my versions of the compilers
3)  the code is broken

for 1 & 2, adjust the documentation.
for #3, fix the code ;)

I tested this on a quite fresh Redhat 9 installation and the newest mysql 4.1 version from our source repository.

Executed the following commands:
aclocal    || autoheader || aclocal || automake || autoconf
(cd bdb/dist && sh s_all)
(cd innobase && aclocal && autoheader && aclocal && automake && autoconf)

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-extra-charsets=complex \
--enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile --enable-assembler \
--disable-shared --with-client-ldflags=-all-static \
--with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static

gmake -j 4

All tests passed for me (the tests does run mysql_install_db), which indicates that there is something wrong in our setup (or something is very different on RedHat 9)

Could you try to configure with --debug and see if you can run mysqld under gdb to give us a back trace for what goes wrong ?

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