MySQL-4.1.8a

MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon and many different client programs and libraries.

For security reasons, running the server as an unprivileged user and group is strongly encouraged:

groupadd mysql &&
useradd -c mysql -d /dev/null -g mysql -s /bin/false mysql

Build and install MySQL by running the following commands:

CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE" ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/srv/mysql \
    --enable-thread-safe-client --enable-assembler \
    --enable-local-infile --with-named-thread-libs=-lpthread \
    --with-unix-socket-path=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock \
    --without-debug --without-bench --without-readline &&
make testdir=/usr/lib/mysql/mysql-test &&
make testdir=/usr/lib/mysql/mysql-test install &&
cd /usr/lib &&
ln -sf mysql/libmysqlclient{,_r}.so* .

--libexecdir=/usr/sbin: This switch installs the mysqld daemon in an appropriate location.

--localstatedir=/srv/mysql: This switch forces MySQL to use /srv/mysql for database files and other variable data.

--enable-thread-safe-client: This switch compiles a thread-safe MySQL client library.

--enable-assembler: This switch allows using assembler versions of some string functions.

--enable-local-infile: This switch enables the LOAD DATA INFILE SQL statement.

CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE" --with-named-thread-libs=-lpthread: This environment variable and configure switch enable building on NPTL systems.

--with-unix-socket-path=/var/run/mysql: This switch puts the unix-domain socket into /var/run/mysql directory instead of default /tmp.

--without-bench: This switch skips building the benchmark suite.

--without-readline: This switch forces the build to use the system copy of readline instead of the bundled copy.

make testdir=...: This installs the test suite in /usr/lib/mysql/mysql-test. BLFS is currently seeking a method to omit the installation of the test suite altogether.

ln -sf mysql/libmysqlclient{,_r}.so* .: This command makes the MySQL shared libraries available to other packages at run-time.

--with-libwrap: This switch adds tcpwrappers support to MySQL.

--with-openssl: This switch adds OpenSSL support to MySQL.

The MySQL package contains client_test, comp_err, isamchk, isamlog, make_win_binary_distribution, make_win_src_distribution, msql2mysql, my_print_defaults, myisam_ftdump, myisamchk, myisamlog, myisampack, mysql, mysql_config, mysql_convert_table_format, mysql_create_system_tables, mysql_explain_log, mysql_find_rows, mysql_fix_extensions, mysql_fix_privilege_tables, mysql_install_db, mysql_secure_installation, mysql_setpermission, mysql_tableinfo, mysql_tzinfo_to_sql, mysql_waitpid, mysql_zap, mysqlacess,mysqladmin, mysqlbinlog, mysqlbug, mysqlcheck, mysqld, mysqld_multi, mysqld_safe, mysqldump, mysqldumpslow, mysqlhotcopy, mysqlimport, mysqlmanager, mysqlmanager-pwgen, mysqlmanagerc, mysqlshow, mysqltest, pack_isam, perror, replace, resolve_stack_dump, resolveip, libdbug, libheap, libmerge, libmyisam, libmyisammrg, libmysqlclient, libmysqlclient_r, libmystrings, libmysys, libnisam and libvio.

A package listing would be several pages long. Consult the MySQL documentation for full details instead.

Certain MySQL support programs may require the Perl DBI modules to be installed to function properly.