I’ve finally decided to work on a number of improvements in Instrumentation within the MySQL Server I’ve wanted for the first year, See What is the optimal thread specific buffer size?. It’s been a while since I’ve compiled from source, and from these issues, the first under Ubuntu 7.10 (a fresh install). Here are some of the problems, and solutions overcome, just for some others that may experience them.
I should have simply read my own notes from years ago in Compiling MySQL, specifically the pre-requisites list, but it sometimes helps to remember why things are so.
In summary, I needed the following:
apt-get install automake libtool g++ ncurses-dev
Thanks Miademora, I meant to say that, forgot
First error, “aclocal: not found”
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