[ale] mySQL

Jay Finch retief at larp.com
Mon Sep 23 13:15:29 EDT 2002


I'm curious about this too.  I've never had good luck with pre-built 
Binaries on my heavily modded 2.2.x system -- However, when I built them on 
my own, I've had excellent success.

Thanks!
Jay

At 09:50 PM 9/22/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Friday 20 September 2002 11:46 am, John C wrote:
> > You should ALWAYS use the binaries from mysql.com.  Do not use redhat RPMS
> > and do not compile it yourself.  This is per Brian Aker - Slashdot.org DBA.
> > He stressed this about 3 or 4 times during his talk at Linuxworld Expo.
>
>I would be curious to know his reasons for recommending that. I can 
>understand
>the reasons for not using the RPM's. But I have always had better luck with
>MySQL on my machine when I built it myself. I know that MySQL.com recommends
>using the binaries, but that's just because they get tired of answering
>questions about build problems. But since when is a binary built on another
>machine better than one built on yours?
>
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