Ubuntu
mysql-dfsg-5.0 package

  1. Bug #179905
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 179905

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Andrew Martin (werdz) wrote :

I've found a workaround (solution?) to this problem.

A stack trace revealed the problem to be occurring in gethostbyname_r in libnss.

Specifying C(XX)FLAGS=DUNDEF_HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R will cause the code to compile without using gethostbyname_r (it will fall back to gethostbyname, using pthread mutexs for thread safety), which solves the problem.

I've created a patch for mysql-5.0.51 that patches configure.in. Running autoconf and then compiling with --without-server will result in a working libmysqlclient (autoconf must be installed).

(This isn't the version that ships with ubuntu, this patch still needs to be worked back into the version that ships with ubuntu).