MySQL at Linux/PPC

[Kostas Gewrgiou]

After looking at Bug#: 5732 in RedHat's bugzilla, 
(http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5732)
i found out why enabling LFS makes a bad mysql binary, quoting from the
description of the patch bug:

   The configure scripts of patch-2.5 detect the LFS support in 
   glibc-2.1, but due to the lack of a definition of 
   _GNU_SOURCE, no prototypes for fseeko are declared. That way 
   the compiler thinks fseeko is taking a 32bit argument for 
   the offset, when in reality it takes a 64bit offset.

After compiling MySQL with -D_GNU_SOURCE (with LFS enabled) the problems
went away, i am not sure if defining _LARGEFILE_SOURCE is supposed to give
the fseeko declarations but if it is then its a bug in the glibc headers.

  Kostas Gewrgiou.


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