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2.8.4 Dealing with Problems Compiling MySQL
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All MySQL programs compile cleanly for us with no warnings on Solaris
or Linux using `gcc'. On other systems, warnings may occur due to
differences in system include files. See MIT-pthreads for
warnings that may occur when using MIT-pthreads. For other problems,
check the following list.
The solution to many problems involves reconfiguring. If you do need to
reconfigure, take note of the following:
* If `configure' is run after it has previously been run, it may use
information that was gathered during its previous invocation. This
information is stored in `config.cache'. When `configure' starts
up, it looks for that file and reads its contents if it exists, on
the assumption that the information is still correct. That
assumption is invalid when you reconfigure.
* Each time you run `configure', you must run `make' again to
recompile. However, you may want to remove old object files from
previous builds first because they were compiled using different
configuration options.
To prevent old configuration information or object files from being
used, run these commands before re-running `configure':
shell> rm config.cache
shell> make clean
Alternatively, you can run `make distclean'.
The following list describes some of the problems when compiling MySQL
that have been found to occur most often:
* If you get errors such as the ones shown here when compiling
`sql_yacc.cc', you probably have run out of memory or swap space:
Internal compiler error: program cc1plus got fatal signal 11
Out of virtual memory
Virtual memory exhausted
The problem is that `gcc' requires a huge amount of memory to
compile `sql_yacc.cc' with inline functions. Try running
`configure' with the `--with-low-memory' option:
shell> ./configure --with-low-memory
This option causes `-fno-inline' to be added to the compile line
if you are using `gcc' and `-O0' if you are using something else.
You should try the `--with-low-memory' option even if you have so
much memory and swap space that you think you can't possibly have
run out. This problem has been observed to occur even on systems
with generous hardware configurations and the `--with-low-memory'
option usually fixes it.
* By default, `configure' picks `c++' as the compiler name and GNU
`c++' links with `-lg++'. If you are using `gcc', that behavior
can cause problems during configuration such as this:
configure: error: installation or configuration problem:
C++ compiler cannot create executables.
You might also observe problems during compilation related to
`g++', `libg++', or `libstdc++'.
One cause of these problems is that you may not have `g++', or you
may have `g++' but not `libg++', or `libstdc++'. Take a look at
the `config.log' file. It should contain the exact reason why
your C++ compiler didn't work. To work around these problems, you
can use `gcc' as your C++ compiler. Try setting the environment
variable `CXX' to `"gcc -O3"'. For example:
shell> CXX="gcc -O3" ./configure
This works because `gcc' compiles C++ sources as well as `g++'
does, but does not link in `libg++' or `libstdc++' by default.
Another way to fix these problems is to install `g++', `libg++',
and `libstdc++'. We would, however, like to recommend that you
not use `libg++' or `libstdc++' with MySQL because this will only
increase the binary size of `mysqld' without giving you any
benefits. Some versions of these libraries have also caused
strange problems for MySQL users in the past.
Using `gcc' as the C++ compiler is also required if you want to
compile MySQL with RAID functionality (see CREATE TABLE
for more info on RAID table type) and you are using GNU `gcc'
version 3 and above. If you get errors like those following during
the linking stage when you configure MySQL to compile with the
option `--with-raid', try to use `gcc' as your C++ compiler by
defining the `CXX' environment variable:
gcc -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -rdynamic -o isamchk isamchk.o sort.o libnisam.a
../mysys/libmysys.a ../dbug/libdbug.a ../strings/libmystrings.a
-lpthread -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread
../mysys/libmysys.a(raid.o)(.text+0x79): In function
`my_raid_create':: undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'
../mysys/libmysys.a(raid.o)(.text+0xdd): In function
`my_raid_create':: undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
../mysys/libmysys.a(raid.o)(.text+0x129): In function
`my_raid_open':: undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'
../mysys/libmysys.a(raid.o)(.text+0x189): In function
`my_raid_open':: undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
../mysys/libmysys.a(raid.o)(.text+0x64b): In function
`my_raid_close':: undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
* If your compile fails with errors such as any of the following,
you must upgrade your version of `make' to GNU `make':
making all in mit-pthreads
make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 18:
Badly formed macro assignment
Or:
make: file `Makefile' line 18: Must be a separator (:
Or:
pthread.h: No such file or directory
Solaris and FreeBSD are known to have troublesome `make' programs.
GNU `make' Version 3.75 is known to work.
* If you want to define flags to be used by your C or C++ compilers,
do so by adding the flags to the `CFLAGS' and `CXXFLAGS'
environment variables. You can also specify the compiler names
this way using `CC' and `CXX'. For example:
shell> CC=gcc
shell> CFLAGS=-O3
shell> CXX=gcc
shell> CXXFLAGS=-O3
shell> export CC CFLAGS CXX CXXFLAGS
See MySQL binaries, for a list of flag definitions that
have been found to be useful on various systems.
* If you get an error message like this, you need to upgrade your
`gcc' compiler:
client/libmysql.c:273: parse error before `__attribute__'
`gcc' 2.8.1 is known to work, but we recommend using `gcc' 2.95.2
or `egcs' 1.0.3a instead.
* If you get errors such as those shown here when compiling `mysqld',
`configure' didn't correctly detect the type of the last argument
to `accept()', `getsockname()', or `getpeername()':
cxx: Error: mysqld.cc, line 645: In this statement, the referenced
type of the pointer value ''length'' is ''unsigned long'',
which is not compatible with ''int''.
new_sock = accept(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&cAddr, &length);
To fix this, edit the `config.h' file (which is generated by
`configure'). Look for these lines:
/* Define as the base type of the last arg to accept */
#define SOCKET_SIZE_TYPE XXX
Change `XXX' to `size_t' or `int', depending on your operating
system. (Note that you will have to do this each time you run
`configure' because `configure' regenerates `config.h'.)
* The `sql_yacc.cc' file is generated from `sql_yacc.yy'. Normally
the build process doesn't need to create `sql_yacc.cc', because
MySQL comes with an pre-generated copy. However, if you do need
to re-create it, you might encounter this error:
"sql_yacc.yy", line XXX fatal: default action causes potential...
This is a sign that your version of `yacc' is deficient. You
probably need to install `bison' (the GNU version of `yacc') and
use that instead.
* On Debian Linux 3.0, you need to install `gawk' instead of the
default `mawk' if you want to compile MySQL 4.1 or higher with
Berkeley DB support.
* If you need to debug `mysqld' or a MySQL client, run `configure'
with the `--with-debug' option, then recompile and link your
clients with the new client library. Debugging client.
* If you get a compilation error on Linux (for example, SuSE Linux
8.1 or Red Hat Linux 7.3) similar to the following one:
libmysql.c:1329: warning: passing arg 5 of `gethostbyname_r' from
incompatible pointer type
libmysql.c:1329: too few arguments to function `gethostbyname_r'
libmysql.c:1329: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast
make[2]: *** [libmysql.lo] Error 1
By default, the `configure' script attempts to determine the
correct number of arguments by using `g++' the GNU C++ compiler.
This test yields wrong results if `g++' is not installed. There
are two ways to work around this problem:
* Make sure that the GNU C++ `g++' is installed. On some Linux
distributions, the required package is called `gpp'; on
others, it is named `gcc-c++'.
* Use `gcc' as your C++ compiler by setting the `CXX'
environment variable to `gcc':
export CXX="gcc"
Please note that you need to run `configure' again afterward.
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