[Gllug] Mysql Configure problem

[Peter Childs]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Tethys wrote:

> 
> Pete Ryland writes:
> 
> >I'm guessing you're not developing it nor auditing it, so what are you
> >doing compiling it from scratch for, rather than installing an rpm?
> 
> There are other reasons you might want to compile from source. You
> may be on a non-x86 platform for which no precompiled rpm/deb exists.
> You may not like the default compilation options that have been used.
> The RPM may have been built to be non-relocatable, and you want to
> install it somewhere else. You may be Nix, and have a machine that's
> binary incompatible with anything else on the planet...
> 
> Tet
> 
	Not liking the default compilation usally means that you think the 
package is slow and you think you can compile it differently to be faster.
	It won't work with a database anyway, The best place to look if a 
database is slow is the data, what indexes it has etc etc. Using anything 
but the defaults is a waste of time.
	Of course if you have a non x86 machine or your machine is not 
binary compatible with anything else you will have to use the source. 
There is however usally a very good reason the developers have used the 
options they have. 
	Now I'm a postgres user (I am not going to argue the ins and outs 
of MySql) but I did hear I think at a Gllug meeting that a MySql build 
takes them well over a week and if you have time to waste on building it 
like that you obviously have plenty of time on your hands......

Peter 


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