Trouble Installing mySQL. How hard could it be?
 

I'm trying to install mySQL on my PS2. I copied the .tar.gz to /usr/local/src, unpacked it, and now I want to configure and make it. Unfortunately, when I run ./configure", it says "configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one".

I have never compiled anything on my PS2 before, and I thought this problem might have something to do with the different architecture, but the part of ./configure that does run identifies the architecture properly.

I'm stumped.

Might have to root around in the config file (or hopefully README) to find out what exactly it's expecting. On some "weird" systems you sometimes have to tell it ./configure --normal-parameters-etc --build-type=/PS2 or something like that.

Someone suggested I should get the latest config.guess file, but that didn't help. It just gave me a whole bunch of "command not found" errors.

Having no luck with that, I put the old config.guess back and tried "./configure --build=mipsel-unknown-linux". This appeared to work (i.e. it ran all of the configure tests), but it got to the end and said:

configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
configure: error: could not configure INNODB

Did I not just specify a build type?!?

Also, you wouldn't happen to know about that INNODB error, too, would you?

Thanks.