Hosting Provided By

Re: MySQL 5.1.21 won't build on OpenBSD unless...

From: Joerg Bruehe <joerg(at)mysql.com>
Date: Sun Sep 30 2007 - 05:58:24 EDT

Hi !

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Sep 27), Jake Conk said:

>> Not sure if this is known or not but I just wanted to let you guys
>> know that MySQL 5.1.21 fails the make. I've never had this problem on
>> other versions of mysql. It looks like GNU make worked all the way
>> through but why won't regular make work anymore?

>
> You didn't give much useful information in your message (not even a
> line number!), but I bet I found the problem.
>
> Lines 149 and 150 of Makefile.am have spaces instead of tabs as
> indentation characters. Even the documentation for GNU make says that
> "A tab character must come at the beginning of every command line to
> distinguish command lines from other lines in the makefile.", so it
> really should have failed too. Fix those two lines before running
> ./configure and your build should run okay.

If you refer to the "Makefile" in the root directory of the MySQL sources: This has been spotted and fixed, 5.1.22 sources do not contain it any more.

I fully agree to requiring tab characters for indenting actions in Makefiles. Sorry for it ever appearing in published sources !

Joerg

-- 
Joerg Bruehe, Senior Production Engineer
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com

-- 
MySQL General Mailing List
For list archives: 
http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
To unsubscribe:    
http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=lists@pantek.com

Received on Sun Sep 30 05:59:41 2007

This message: [ Message body ]
Next message: Rick Faircloth: "Having trouble storing monetary values..."
Previous message: David Christopher Zentgraf: "Re: Restrict inserts to meet certain conditions?"
In reply to: Dan Nelson: "Re: MySQL 5.1.21 won't build on OpenBSD unless..."

Contemporary messages sorted: [ By Date ] [ By Thread ] [ By Subject ] [ By Author ] [ By messages with attachments ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Sun Oct 07 2007 - 10:12:56 EDT