RPMS for MySQL version 4?

[Jima]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, John M. Wright wrote:
>  >  Anyway, that can be shortened to:
>  > 
>  > 1. download SRPM
>  > 2. # rpmbuild --rebuild MySQL-4.0.20-0.src.rpm
>  > 
>  >      Jima
> 
> OK, but I fail to see how this would produce different binary RPMS
> than:  #rpm -Uvh MySQL-4.0.20-0.src.rpm
> 
> followed by: #rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/rpm/SPECS/MySQL-4.0.20-0.spec

 Nope, it's just a shortcut, if you didn't have to tweak it before 
rebuilding.

> that fail to install because:
> 
> # rpm -Uvh MySQL*
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by (installed) perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1017-3
>         libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by (installed) php-mysql-4.2.2-16

 Okay, this is probably ugly and hackish, but I think it might be the 
easiest step:

1. install SRPM
2. edit mysql-4.0.20.spec
3. add this line

ln -s libmysqlclient.so.12 $RBR%{_libdir}/libmysqlclient.so.10

 after these two:

# Install shared libraries (Disable for architectures that don't support it)
(cd $RBR%{_libdir}; tar xf $RBR/shared-libs.tar; rm -f $RBR/shared-libs.tar)

4. rpmbuild -ba mysql-4.0.20.spec

 It (should?) satisfy the dependency for that file (I hope?).  Otherwise, 
a rebuild of PHP (against MySQL 4, and ergo libmysqlclient.so.12) is 
probably in order.  Ugh.

> My original question was:
> 
>  > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, John M. Wright wrote:
>  > > Forgive my ignorance; what do you mean by "the compiled-in
>  > > data directory"?
>   
> which referred to some manual tweaking you had suggested was necessary
> to the MySQL source and/or spec files before compiling.

 That tweak was in regards to someone else's specific needs in MySQL 4.

> Thanks for any suggestions,

 Just hope I can help.

     Jima