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After choosing which version of MySQL to install, you should decide
whether to use a binary distribution or a source distribution. In
most cases you should probably use a binary distribution, if one
exists for your platform. Binary distributions are available in native format
for many platforms, such as RPM files for Linux or DMG package installers for
Mac OS X. Distributions also are available as Zip archives or compressed
tar
files.
Reasons to choose a binary distribution include the following:
The extended MySQL binary distribution is marked with the
-max
suffix and is configured with the same options as
mysqld-max
. See section mysqld-max
.
If you want to use the MySQL-Max
RPM, you must first
install the standard MySQL-server
RPM.
Circumstances under which you probably will be better off with a source installation include the following:
mysqld
with some extra features that are
not in the standard binary distributions. Here is a list of the most
common extra options that you may want to use:
--with-innodb
(default for MySQL 4.0 and onwards)
--with-berkeley-db
(not available on all platforms)
--with-raid
--with-libwrap
--with-named-z-libs
(This is done for some of the binaries)
--with-debug[=full]
mysqld
without some features that are
included in the standard binary distributions. For example,
distributions normally are compiled with support for all character
sets. If you want a smaller MySQL server, you can recompile it with support
for only the character sets you need.
pgcc
) or want to use compiler
options that are better optimized for your processor. Binary distributions
are compiled with options that should work on a variety of processors from
the same processor family.
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