Subject: Re: MySQL silently fails to start
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/01/2007 22:58:45
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:47:45PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:30:52PM -0500, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> > 
> > yeah, you probably need to update your libpthread.  It sucks that there's
> > no backwards compatibility, but I guess doing so would have been very
> > difficult.  :(
> > 
> 
> Best to be safe and update the entire system - anything linked against
> pthread will fail (named for instance).
>
> I did the update from an old 3.99 version -current to -current as of a few
> days ago and faced the same problems.  Mysql works fine if you build it on
> an updated userland.

Bzzt. Packages built for older versions of NetBSD continue to work just
fine, AS LONG AS THEY AREN'T STATICALLY LINKED AGAINST LIBPTHREAD.

Andrew