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 2.12.1.7 Linux Alpha Notes
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 MySQL 3.23.12 is the first MySQL version that is tested on Linux-Alpha.
 If you plan to use MySQL on Linux-Alpha, you should ensure that you
 have this version or newer.
 
 We have tested MySQL on Alpha with our benchmarks and test suite, and
 it appears to work nicely.
 
 We currently build the MySQL binary packages on SuSE Linux 7.0 for AXP,
 kernel 2.4.4-SMP, Compaq C compiler (V6.2-505) and Compaq C++ compiler
 (V6.3-006) on a Compaq DS20 machine with an Alpha EV6 processor.
 
 You can find the preceding compilers at
 `http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/'.  By using these compilers
 rather than `gcc', we get about 9-14% better MySQL performance.
 
 Note that until MySQL version 3.23.52 and 4.0.2, we optimized the
 binary for the current CPU only (by using the `-fast' compile option).
 This means that for older versions, you can use our Alpha binaries only
 if you have an Alpha EV6 processor.
 
 For all following releases, we added the `-arch generic' flag to our
 compile options, which makes sure that the binary runs on all Alpha
 processors. We also compile statically to avoid library problems.  The
 `configure' command looks like this:
 
      CC=ccc CFLAGS="-fast -arch generic" CXX=cxx \
      CXXFLAGS="-fast -arch generic -noexceptions -nortti" \
      ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --disable-shared \
          --with-extra-charsets=complex --enable-thread-safe-client \
          --with-mysqld-ldflags=-non_shared --with-client-ldflags=-non_shared
 
 If you want to use `egcs', the following `configure' line worked for us:
 
      CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CXX=gcc \
      CXXFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -felide-constructors \
          -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" \
      ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --disable-shared
 
 Some known problems when running MySQL on Linux-Alpha:
 
    * Debugging threaded applications like MySQL will not work with `gdb
      4.18'.  You should use `gdb' 5.1 instead.
 
    * If you try linking `mysqld' statically when using `gcc', the
      resulting image will dump core at startup time.  In other words,
      _do not_ use `--with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static' with `gcc'.
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