Re: [cobalt-developers] make for mysql fails with file format not recognised

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am however still having a weird problem, i'm installing MySQL onto a
> surplus RAQ2 and it refuses to make (same for all versions od mysql).

What version are you trying to install?
 
> I get this "/usr/bin/ld:violite.lo: file format not recognized; treating as
> linker script" if i delete this file to see if its just that one it soon
> fails on another.
>
> The operation it is carrying out at this point is..
> gcc -shared  libmysql.lo net.lo violite.lo password.lo get_password.lo
> errmsg.lo ...etc... blah...
> 
> Anyone know why this is happening?

Not sure what this is, sorry. I tried installing Mysql-3.23.51 but ran into
problems on the make. They weren't the same problems that you reported
though. However, I was able to install version Mysql-3.23.49.

HTH,
j