Building MySQL from source on Solaris 9 sparc

[calvin.malaney]

Hello,

I have been pulling my hair out for two days, trying to get MySQL working with DBD on my fully patched Solaris 9 spac machine. I would be very grateful for any hints, suggestions or pointers!

Here goes:

Having tried and failed to get DBD to work with MySQL 4.1.10 standard binary, I decided to download MySQL source and compile it (reasoning that libraries required by DBD may not be available in the standard binary distribution).

Following instructions in the MySQL manual, I ran configure as follows:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-low-memory --enable-assembler

and it appeared to go well, but with the following warnings:

configure:22606: WARNING: term.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure:22608: WARNING: term.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure:22610: WARNING: term.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure:22612: WARNING: term.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure:22614: WARNING: term.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure:22616: WARNING: term.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure:22628: checking for term.h
.
.
configure:32423: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure:32425: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure:32427: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure:32429: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure:32431: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure:32433: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure:32445: checking for sys/ptem.h
.
.
#endif
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" void std::exit (int) throw (); using std::exit;

configure: exit 0

Not knowing if the above are significant, I ran 'make', which bombed out as shown below:
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then mv -f ".deps/fgetln.Tpo" ".deps/fgetln.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/fgetln.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
rm -f libedit.a
false cru libedit.a chared.o el.o history.o map.o prompt.o readline.o search.o tokenizer.o vi.o common.o emacs.o hist.o key.o parse.o read.o refresh.o sig.o term.o tty.o help.o fcns.o unvis.o vis.o fgetln.o
make[3]: *** [libedit.a] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/export/home/malaneyc/mysql-4.1.10/cmd-line-utils/libedit'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/malaneyc/mysql-4.1.10/cmd-line-utils'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/malaneyc/mysql-4.1.10'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Since then I have run 'configure' with various options - as recommended in the MySQL manual (after deleting the old directory and un-tarring again), but regardless, make has always bombed out. I have even upgraded from gcc 3.3.2 to 3.4.2, but it doesn't appear to make a difference.

Any suggestions?

Best regards,
Calvin.