[ale] mySQL

[Mike Lockhart]

To paraphrase what Jeremy Cole, the MySQL trainer told us regarding that
matter (and i'm going from memory here, I can't find some of my notes
from the class), the pre-built binaries are fine for probably 60-70% of
people who use mysql.  The other 30-40% would be better off building it
from source due to optimizations they want to incorporate during the
build process.  You might want to ask this question on the mysql mailing
list, which Jeremy is very active on (in fact, its how he got his job
with mysql!), and also the guy from Yahoo! Financial is very active on
the list.  I'm sure they'd have a lot of good input on the pros and cons
of building your own.  Hope this helps ;)

-- mike

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 12:15, Jay Finch wrote:
> 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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