[ILUG] Re: RedHat 7.1 & MySQL- Starting MySQL

[Vincent Cunniffe]

Niall O Broin wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:11:36AM +0000, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:

>>I install from source, so I'm not familiar with the RPM layout.
>>
> 
> MySQL is not something I like installing from source much, because at any
> given moment it seems to come with some caveats vis a vis linking against
> some version or other of libc, or the threads library, or whatever. There are
> usually RPMs of the latest stable versions available from the web site. Of
> course if you must have the bleeding edge version, just be sure to read the
> release notes carefully.


I've been installing MySQL versions from source for over a year now,
on multiple servers, and never run up against linking issues at all...

What sort of problems have you seen?

Vin