Bug 99379 - requires MySQL 4.x, but seems to work on 3.23.x
Summary: requires MySQL 4.x, but seems to work on 3.23.x
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: amarok
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.3.5
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Amarok Developers
URL:
Keywords:
: 106576 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-02-14 17:34 UTC by Aurelien Bompard
Modified: 2006-06-11 12:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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patch to configure to detect mysql < 4.0 (345 bytes, patch)
2005-02-14 17:35 UTC, Aurelien Bompard 		Details
allow of of mysql3 too (1.64 KB, patch)
2005-10-25 17:41 UTC, Rex Dieter 		Details
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Description Aurelien Bompard 2005-02-14 17:34:30 UTC 
Version:           1.2 (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          gcc-3.4.2 
OS:                Linux

In the configure script, the include flags for mysql are found by running mysql_config --include. This switch is only available for mysql > 4.0. There is an equivalent switch which works for all versions: --cflags.
There are still a few distributions which ship mysql 3.x.x due to the change in licensing (resolved recently).
I'll attach a patch to make it work with an old mysql
Comment 1 Aurelien Bompard 2005-02-14 17:35:36 UTC 
Created attachment 9623 [details]
patch to configure to detect mysql < 4.0
Comment 2 Christian Muehlhaeuser 2005-02-14 21:31:38 UTC 
sorry, we depend on mysql >=4.x. dont remember the exact reason, but there were some problems with temporary tables, iirc.

regards,
muesli
Comment 3 gneeki 2005-03-07 20:57:30 UTC 
I have amarok 1.2.1 working fine with mysql 3.23.58, as far as I can
tell - I think the only problem with temporary tables is that the
GRANT sql command for writing to them doesn't exist <4, so the wiki
page for mysql throws an error. You just need to leave out the grant
on temporary tables - I'm told anyone can create them in v3, and it
seems to work fine.

Course, something might break. But I see no sign yet.
Comment 4 Alexandre Oliveira 2005-03-07 21:05:12 UTC 
Due to last comment, I reopened the bug.
Any other known problem with mysql 3.X?
Comment 5 Thiago Macieira 2005-03-08 03:08:43 UTC 
Changing the summary to reflect the new purpose.
Comment 6 gneeki 2005-05-25 18:00:23 UTC 
Why hasn't this been incorporated? Amarok works fine with MySQL version 3, and it just needs a check for this in configure, with the patch above. I have to make this change in the tarball everytime I compile a new version. Can it be implemented please?

To repeat, all that MySQL version 3 needs is to change "mysql_config --include" to "mysql_config --cflags". A quick check in configure will do this.
Comment 7 Alexandre Oliveira 2005-06-01 00:20:43 UTC 
*** Bug 106576 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2005-10-25 17:35:52 UTC 
Confirmed against 1.3.5 too.
Comment 9 Rex Dieter 2005-10-25 17:41:28 UTC 
Created attachment 13151 [details]
allow of of mysql3 too

mysql_config --cflags only if it works
mysql_config --include only if it works
Comment 10 Greg Meyer 2006-03-01 03:15:14 UTC 
Is this fixed now?
Comment 11 Rex Dieter 2006-03-01 03:53:34 UTC 
Not fixed yet, not until someone applies patch (at least the configure.in.in bits) from comment #9.

I could do it, provided it's approved by an amarok developer.
Comment 12 Jeff Mitchell 2006-05-26 22:25:54 UTC 
I'm guessing a dev hasn't applied it cause none of us are using mysql 3 anymore and don't want to downgrade :-)
Comment 13 Mark Kretschmann 2006-05-31 12:15:59 UTC 
Sorry, we won't support 3.x any more. We simply can't maintain it. It's two major versions outdated by now.