5.1.40 configure script broken?

[Jon Perez]

I encountered several problems trying to configure custom plugin configurations on Slackware 12.2 from the source package mysql-5.1.40.tar.gz.

* --with-plugin-XXXX fails:

# ./configure --with-plugin-innobase
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-plugin-innobase
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

actually, I tried many different --with-plugin-XXXXX combinations, none seem to work.

* I seem unable to compile the federated, blackhole, archive, etc... plugins, I tried

--with-plugins=max-no-ndb
--with-plugins=innobase,innodb_plugin,archive,federated

and other combinations, but ha_archive.so.*, ha_federated.so.*, ha_blackhole.so.*, etc don't get created. Only ha_innodb_plugin seems to be get created no matter what combination I try.