A standard .tar.gz of MySQL 4.0.12 builds find on RedHat 8, or at least appears to. The src.rpm file however does not. Has anyone gotten this to build? Whether you love or hate RPM, it does make it easier to keep up with versions and dependencies on multiple servers as compared to a regular source build. Thanks...

gcc -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -O2 -march=i686 -rdynamic -o isamchk isamchk.o sort.o libnisam.a ../md
../mysys/libmysys.a(my_tempnam.o): In function `my_tempnam':
my_tempnam.o(.text+0x50): the use of `tempnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
../mysys/libmysys.a(raid.o): In function `my_raid_create':
raid.o(.text+0x95): undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'
raid.o(.text+0x11f): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
../mysys/libmysys.a(raid.o): In function `my_raid_open':
raid.o(.text+0x175): undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'
raid.o(.text+0x1fc): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
../mysys/libmysys.a(raid.o): In function `my_raid_close':
raid.o(.text+0x715): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [isamchk] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/mysql-4.0.12/isam'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/mysql-4.0.12'
make: *** [all] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62481 (%build)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62481 (%build)

I dunno. I rather like Gentoo's ebuild system personally.

That said I'm having a linking error with 3.23.56...

Any case, I see that the system is choking when trying to compile in raid support. Is it possible to manually disable that feature in your ./configure step?

Food for thought.

Took out --with-raid from the spec file... Still no go. Can't put a finger on what it's failing on now quite as easily:

sql_table.o(.text+0x4d28): undefined reference to `operator new[](unsigned)'
sql_table.o(.text+0x5152): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
../libmysqld.a(sql_update.o): In function `multi_update:repare(List<Item>&)':
sql_update.o(.text+0x1430): undefined reference to `operator new[](unsigned)'
../libmysqld.a(sql_update.o): In function `multi_update::~multi_update [not-in-charge]()':
sql_update.o(.text+0x18f0): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
sql_update.o(.text+0x1993): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
../libmysqld.a(sql_update.o): In function `multi_update::~multi_update [in-charge]()':
sql_update.o(.text+0x1a80): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
sql_update.o(.text+0x1b23): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
../libmysqld.a(sql_update.o): In function `multi_update::~multi_update [in-charge deleting]()':
sql_update.o(.text+0x1c10): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
../libmysqld.a(sql_update.o)(.text+0x1cb3): more undefined references to `operator delete[](void*)' follow
../libmysqld.a(item_cmpfunc.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV9Item_cond+0x34): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_cmpfunc.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV8cmp_item+0x10): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_cmpfunc.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV8cmp_item+0x14): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_cmpfunc.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV9in_vector+0x10): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_cmpfunc.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV9in_vector+0x14): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_cmpfunc.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV15Item_bool_func2+0x34): more undefined references to `__cxa_pure_virtual' follow
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o): In function `Item_sum_count_distinct::~Item_sum_count_distinct [not-in-charge]()':
item_sum.o(.text+0x1d33): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o): In function `Item_sum_count_distinct::~Item_sum_count_distinct [in-charge]()':
item_sum.o(.text+0x1e23): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o): In function `Item_sum_count_distinct::~Item_sum_count_distinct [in-charge deleting]()':
item_sum.o(.text+0x1f13): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o): In function `Item_sum_count_distinct::setup(THD*)':
item_sum.o(.text+0x23b0): undefined reference to `operator delete[](void*)'
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV12Item_sum_bit+0xa8): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV12Item_sum_bit+0xb0): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV15Item_sum_hybrid+0xa0): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV15Item_sum_hybrid+0xa8): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV12Item_sum_int+0xa0): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(item_sum.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV12Item_sum_int+0xa4): more undefined references to `__cxa_pure_virtual' follow
../libmysqld.a(opt_ft.o): In function `get_ft_or_quick_select_for_ref(st_table*, st_join_table*)':
opt_ft.o(.text+0x46): undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'
../libmysqld.a(opt_ft.o): In function `FT_SELECT::~FT_SELECT [in-charge deleting]()':
opt_ft.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN9FT_SELECTD0Ev+0x24): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
../libmysqld.a(opt_range.o): In function `get_quick_select(st_qsel_param*, unsigned, SEL_ARG*)':
opt_range.o(.text+0x443d): undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'
../libmysqld.a(opt_range.o): In function `get_quick_select_for_ref(st_table*, st_table_ref*)':
opt_range.o(.text+0x4aee): undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'
../libmysqld.a(opt_range.o): In function `QUICK_SELECT::~QUICK_SELECT [in-charge deleting]()':
opt_range.o(.text+0x4b2): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
../libmysqld.a(opt_range.o): In function `QUICK_SELECT_DESC::~QUICK_SELECT_DESC [in-charge deleting]()':
opt_range.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN17QUICK_SELECT_DESCD0Ev+0x24): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
../libmysqld.a(procedure.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV9Procedure+0x10): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(procedure.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV9Procedure+0x14): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(procedure.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV9Procedure+0x18): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(procedure.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV9Procedure+0x1c): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(procedure.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV9Item_proc+0x30): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(procedure.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV9Item_proc+0x34): more undefined references to `__cxa_pure_virtual' follow
../libmysqld.a(procedure.o): In function `Procedure::~Procedure [in-charge deleting]()':
procedure.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN9ProcedureD0Ev+0x26): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
../libmysqld.a(sql_analyse.o): In function `proc_analyse_init(THD*, st_order*, select_result*, List<Item>&)':
sql_analyse.o(.text+0xbf): undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)'
../libmysqld.a(sql_analyse.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV10field_info+0x10): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(sql_analyse.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV10field_info+0x14): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(sql_analyse.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV10field_info+0x18): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(sql_analyse.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV10field_info+0x1c): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(sql_analyse.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV10field_info+0x20): undefined reference to `__cxa_pure_virtual'
../libmysqld.a(sql_analyse.o)(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV10field_info+0x24): more undefined references to `__cxa_pure_virtual' follow
../libmysqld.a(sql_analyse.o): In function `analyse::~analyse [in-charge deleting]()':
sql_analyse.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN7analyseD0Ev+0x62): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [mysqltest] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/mysql-4.0.12/libmysqld/examples'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/mysql-4.0.12/libmysqld'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/mysql-4.0.12'
make: *** [all] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.45930 (%build)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.45930 (%build)

Alright dude. Time to whip out the really perfunctory fixes.

Item 1: completely nuke the source folder and unstuff the binary again
Item 2: Make sure you also have the mysql-dev source rpm

Beyond that, I can only suggest sucking down the tarball from mysql.com, and performing a DIFF between it and the RedHat source folder. Apply the changes, one by one, to the mysql source, and see if it compiles.

While you are at it, don't forget to push that rock back up to the top of the hill again.