Just works for me on Ubuntu 13.04 with recent Percona Server 5.6.14: Checked out revision 15263. openxs@ao756:~$ cd trunk/ openxs@ao756:~/trunk$ ./configure --enable-64bit checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking whether gcc supports -Wno-unused-parameter... yes checking whether gcc supports -Wno-pointer-sign... yes checking whether gcc can actually use -Wno-pointer-sign... yes checking whether gcc supports -Wno-switch... yes checking whether gcc supports -fPIC... yes checking how to make shared objects... -shared checking whether gcc needs -fPIC for shared objects... yes checking whether gcc supports -fno-strict-aliasing... yes checking for inline... inline checking for all available inline directives... done checking for ar... ar checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking sys/select.h usability... yes checking sys/select.h presence... yes checking for sys/select.h... yes checking execinfo.h usability... yes checking execinfo.h presence... yes checking for execinfo.h... yes checking net/socket.h usability... no checking net/socket.h presence... no checking for net/socket.h... no checking for setrlimit... yes checking for strnlen... yes checking for getpid... yes checking for gettid... no checking for inflateEnd in -lz... yes checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes checking for library containing sqrt... -lm checking for library containing clock_gettime... none required checking whether CLOCK_MONOTONIC is supported and works... yes checking for mysql_config... /usr/bin/mysql_config checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... yes checking mysql.h usability... yes checking mysql.h presence... yes checking for mysql.h... yes checking MySQL library (optional)... yes (5.5.34) checking for pcre_study in -lpcre... yes checking PCRE library (optional)... yes checking host OS... Linux checking for MinGW... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/common/Makefile config.status: creating 3rdparty/mt19937ar/Makefile config.status: creating src/char/Makefile config.status: creating src/login/Makefile config.status: creating src/char_sql/Makefile config.status: creating src/txt-converter/Makefile config.status: creating src/map/Makefile config.status: creating src/plugins/Makefile config.status: creating src/tool/Makefile config.status: creating src/common/config.h openxs@ao756:~/trunk$ sudo apt-cache search mysqlclient libcrypt-mysql-perl - Perl module to emulate the MySQL PASSWORD() function libglpk0 - linear programming kit with integer (MIP) support libmysqlclient-dev - Percona Server database development files libmysqlclient16 - Percona Server database client library libmysqlclient16-dev - Percona Server database development files libmysqlclient18 - Percona Server database client library libmysqlclient18-dev - Percona Server database development files libmysqlclient18.1-dev - Percona Server database development files - empty transitional libmysqlclient18.1 - Percona Server database client library openxs@ao756:~/trunk$ dpkg-query -l percona-server dpkg-query: no packages found matching percona-server openxs@ao756:~/trunk$ dpkg-query -l percona-server* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= un percona-server (no description available) un percona-server (no description available) ii percona-server 1:5.6.14-rel amd64 Percona Server database client bi un percona-server (no description available) un percona-server (no description available) ii percona-server 1:5.6.14-rel amd64 Percona Server database common fi un percona-server (no description available) un percona-server (no description available) ii percona-server 1:5.6.14-rel amd64 Percona Server database server bi openxs@ao756:~/trunk$ apt-cache show libmysqlclient-dev Package: libmysqlclient-dev Source: percona-xtradb-cluster-5.6 Version: 5.6.14-25.1-571.raring Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Percona Server Development Team