Re: Installation Question

[dan orlic]

I second Ugo's opinion.

dan

Ugo Bellavance wrote:

 

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Kirti S. Bajwa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Envoyé : Thursday, January 01, 2004 12:16 PM
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Objet : RE: Installation Question


Dan:

Thank you fast reply on New Year Day.

The only reason I was trying to install the source 
distribution because it
is supposed to be optimized!!
   

It is not optimized.  It is optimizeable, not the same thing.  However, you need to know exacly what are the compiler flags to optimize it.  If you run on x86, you are better of with the binary or the .rpm.  No offense, but people who compile at mysql are a lot better than you and me to get the best flags.

hth
Ugo
 

Is binary distribution is also optimized or it makes no difference? I
personally prefer binary myself. I will wait for a response 
before I start
all over again.

Thanks again.

Kirti

-----Original Message-----
From: dan orlic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 12:07 PM
To: Kirti S. Bajwa
Subject: Re: Installation Question
i never had much luck with the source distribution, let alone 
using the 
prefix flag.  Try untarring it in /usr/local/mysql dir 
yourself and then 
continue with the ./configure make and so forth... better 
yet, i would 
untar it in a /usr/local/mysql-whatever-version and then make a soft 
link of mysql point to that directory, allows you to have multiple 
installs of mysql where all you have to change is the link 
and restart 
mysql.  my humble option, go with the binary installation.... it will 
take you less then a couple minutes to install.

hope this helps.

dan

Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:

   

I am trying to install MySQL from source distribution by 
     

following the
   

instructions under section: 2.3.1 Quick Source Installation 
     

Overview. 
   

I notice that the configure state is listed as follows:
shell> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql 

which means to install the software in /usr/local/mysql. 
     

After I run this
   

configure statement, I do not see a folder /usr/local/mysql!! Is it
     

correct?
   

Kirti



     

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