Mysql Installation from source but not succeeded yet
 

Hello all there.......
Please anybody help me out in installing mysql form source. I am installing mysql from tarball. But getting problem to install mysqld service and unable to start mysql sevice. When i'm installing there is problem to generate the /usr/local/src/mysql/data/ directory. I've download the mysql-4.0.22.tar.gz version for installation and my operationg system is CentOS 4.
First I've untared the mysql tar in /usr/local/src then i created group and user for mysql with following commands:
#groupadd mysql
#useradd *-g mysql *-c "MySQL Server" *-d /dev/null *-s /sbin/nologin mysql
then
compiled the ./configure file with following parameters:
#./configure \
--**prefix=/usr/local/mysql \
--**localstatedir=/usr/local/mysql/data \
**--disable-*maintainer-*mode \
**--with*-mysqld-*user=mysql \
**--with*-unix-*socket*path=/tmp/mysql.sock \
**--without-*comment \
**--without*-debug \
**--without*-bench
then i ran make && make install command and it got installed successfully. After thar i installed initial databases by running ./scripts/mysql_install_db script and now when i'm changing the ownership for following dirictories it's giving me error /usr/local/mysql/data directory not exist.
#chown *R root:mysql /usr/local/mysql
#chown *R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql/data
why is it so please help me out solving this problem.
plz.....

Do you have SELinux enabled?
The steps you've taken are correct, so the fact that the data directory is not created looks like a SELinux problem.

You'd be far better off using the pkg mgr. Also, MySQL 4.0 is way old. I wouldn't recommend it.