I have run configure and that went through great, but when i run make then i get this message:

libmysql.c: In function 'mysql_real_connect':
libmysql.c:1850: Warning: passing arg 5 of 'gethostbyname_r' from incompatible pointer type
libmysql.c:1850: too few arguments to function 'gethostbyname_r'
libmysql.c:1850: warning: assingment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[2]: *** [libmysql.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/mysql-4.0.20/libmysql'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/mysql-4.0.20'
make: *** [all] Error 2

What do i have to do to make this work?

Welcome to LQ.

Can you post what came above that - there is likely to be more to the error.

I'll move this to software since it isn't really a networking question.

I think i'm having the same problem that larynx was having. Not sure whats wrong, but i posted everything i could see that related to the error, starting when make went inside the libmysql directory, where the error ocurred.


Making all in libmysql
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/me/bin/mysql-4.1.7/libmysql'
source='manager.c' object='manager.lo' libtool=yes \
depfile='.deps/manager.Plo' tmpdepfile='.deps/manager.TPlo' \
depmode=none /bin/sh ../depcomp \
/bin/sh ../libtool --preserve-dup-deps --mode=compile gcc -DDEFAULT_CHARSET_HOME="\"/usr/local/mysql\"" -DDATADIR="\"/usr/local/mysql/data\"" -DSHAREDIR="\"/usr/local/mysql/share/mysql\"" -DUNDEF_THREADS_HACK -DDONT_USE_RAID -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I../zlib -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -c -o manager.lo `test -f 'manager.c' || echo './'`manager.c
gcc -DDEFAULT_CHARSET_HOME=\"/usr/local/mysql\" -DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/mysql/data\" -DSHAREDIR=\"/usr/local/mysql/share/mysql\" -DUNDEF_THREADS_HACK -DDONT_USE_RAID -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I../zlib -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -c manager.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/manager.o
manager.c: In function `mysql_manager_connect':
manager.c:136: warning: passing arg 5 of `gethostbyname_r' from incompatible pointer type
manager.c:136: error: too few arguments to function `gethostbyname_r'
manager.c:136: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[2]: *** [manager.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/me/bin/mysql-4.1.7/libmysql'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/bin/mysql-4.1.7'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas?