1>Downloaded MySQL-5.0.13-0.src.rpm 2>Ran the command rpmbuild --rebuild --clean MySQL-5.0.13-0.src.rpm. I have an amd athlon processor with 1GB Ram. output of uname -p=athlon output of uname -r=2.6.9-1.667 output of uname -a=Linux ns.ravislab.org 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux output of rpm -qa gcc = gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3 output of rpm -qa glibc = glibc-2.3.3-74 Hope this helps will throw some light on my problem with regards ravi yadav