Subject: Re: Which MySQL version on Alpha?
To: Wolfgang Rupp <rupp@chello.at>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/09/2005 09:45:00
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Wolfgang Rupp wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Is there a MySQL version known to work on Alpha? It must be stable,
> because several people rely on that machine. Otherwise, can somebody
> recommend another SQL database? No, Oracle/Tru64 is not an option :-)
>
> The machine is still on 1.6.2 but will be upgraded to 2.0.2 soon.
>
> I tried 4.1.11, since it is in pkgsrc and the Linux/x86 box is running
> MySQL4 as well. It blows up with unaligned access before even starting.
> Google revealed several problems with MySQL on Alpha, but no solution.

I'm running 4.0.24 from pkgsrc (how old is your pkgsrc?) and it works just
fine.

	Johnny

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