Subject: Re: Compiling MySQL
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/18/1998 19:23:22
dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) writes:

>On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 04:20:58PM +0100, Peter Gutbrod wrote:
>> Did anyone manage to compile MySQL on netbsd-mac68k?
>> 
>> I've tried the source from the package collection, but it compiles only 
>> without the database server due to lack of native thread support. So the 
>> result is no very usefull.
>> 
>> Then I downloaded the sourcode directly from NTX and tried to use 
>> MIT-pthreads as advised in the MySQL manual. 
>> config gave a warning that the system is not recognized and make stopped 
>> with a fatal error afterwards.

>I don't think you can do it, because the mit-threads stuff seems to require
>some assembler code, and that's only supplied for NetBSD for i386.

Yes, there needs to be some assembly code for the m68k to be written.
It is not particularly hard.

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Christoph Badura
Verlag O'Reilly