Re: Problem installing mariadb 5 on solaris 10
That depends on the libraries that you have installed.

I suppose you were running simply ./configure ?

Try ./configure --with-readline

Re: Problem installing mariadb 5 on solaris 10
Here is the configure command I was issuing:

CFLAGS="-O3" CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="-O3 -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" ./configure --prefix=/root/mariadb --enable-assembler --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static

I took the above command from 'INSTALL-SOURCE' section 2.3

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I tried with your suggestion, still getting some different error:

./configure --prefix=/root/mariadb --with-readline

make error:

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if g++ -DMYSQL_CLIENT_NO_THREADS -DDEFAULT_MYSQL_HOME='"/root/mariadb"' -DMYSQL_DATADIR='"/root/mariadb/var"' -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../include -I../regex -g -O2 -fno-implicit-templates -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T -MT completion_hash.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/completion_hash.Tpo" -c -o completion_hash.o completion_hash.cc; \
then mv -f ".deps/completion_hash.Tpo" ".deps/completion_hash.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/completion_hash.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -g -O2 -fno-implicit-templates -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T -o mysql mysql.o readline.o sql_string.o completion_hash.o ../cmd-line-utils/readline/libreadline.a -lcurses -lpthread -lthread ../libmysql/libmysqlclient.la -lposix4 -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lz -lrt
g++ g -O2 -fno-implicit-templates -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T -o .libs/mysql mysql.o readline.o sql_string.o completion_hash.o ../cmd-line-utils/readline/libreadline.a -lcurses -lpthread -lthread ../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so -ldl -lposix4 -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lz -lrt -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/root/mariadb/lib/mysql
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yayaSSL_CleanUp'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaX509_get_issuer_name'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_get_fd'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_connect'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_shutdown'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaBN_bin2bn'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_new'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_read'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaERR_get_error_line_data'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_get_error'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaDH_free'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_SESSION_set_timeout'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_clear'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaERR_error_string'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaERR_print_errors_fp'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaX509_free'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_get_peer_certificate'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaTLSv1_server_method'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaTLSv1_client_method'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_use_certificate_file'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_set_session_id_context'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_load_error_strings'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_check_private_key'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaOpenSSL_add_all_algorithms'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_sess_set_cache_size'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_get_cipher_name'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaDH_new'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_set_quiet_shutdown'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaX509_get_subject_name'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_write'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_get_shared_ciphers'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_free'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaX509_NAME_oneline'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_new'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_accept'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_pending'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_library_init'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_set_cipher_list'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_set_verify'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_free'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_set_fd'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_get_session'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_set_default_verify_paths'
../libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so: undefined reference to `yaSSL_CTX_load_verify_locations'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[2]: *** [mysql] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/root/mariadb-5.3.5-ga/client'
gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/mariadb-5.3.5-ga/client'
gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

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Re: Problem installing mariadb 5 on solaris 10
I don't know. It looks like if you tried to compile with yassl, then aborted the build, and tried to compile again - without yassl and without cleaning after the first build. And you have some .o files from the first build, and some - from the second one.

Besides, I wasn't able to repeat even the first error - the one with readline.

We don't build our official with simple ./configure, we use our BUILD/* scripts that do all steps with correct options.
On solaris, for example, it could be BUILD/compile-solaris-amd64

Here's a log of one of such builds:
http://buildbot.askmonty.org/buildbot/builders/sol10-64/builds/1100/steps/compile/logs/stdio

Re: Problem installing mariadb 5 on solaris 10
I don't know what yassl is, I didn't used it explicitly anywhere.

But yes, my subsequent configure commands were issued without cleaning.

I did tried the BUILD/* scripts at the first place before trying to configure manually.

I used BUILD/compile-solaris-x86-32 but that failed with following error:

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gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../include -I../../regex -I./include -I../../sql -I. -shared -DMYSQL_DYNAMIC_PLUGIN -Wall -Wextra -Wunused -Wwrite-strings -Wno-uninitialized -D__sun -m32 -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T -DUNIV_SOLARIS -DUNIV_SOLARIS -MT ha_innodb_plugin_la-page0cur.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ha_innodb_plugin_la-page0cur.Tpo -c page/page0cur.c -o ha_innodb_plugin_la-page0cur.o >/dev/null 2>&1
page/page0zip.c: In function `page_zip_decompress':
page/page0zip.c:2968: error: `Z_BLOCK' undeclared (first use in this function)
page/page0zip.c:2968: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
page/page0zip.c:2968: error: for each function it appears in.)
gmake[2]: *** [ha_innodb_plugin_la-page0zip.lo] Error 1
gmake[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../include -I../../regex -I./include -I../../sql -I. -shared -DMYSQL_DYNAMIC_PLUGIN -Wall -Wextra -Wunused -Wwrite-strings -Wno-uninitialized -D__sun -m32 -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T -DUNIV_SOLARIS -DUNIV_SOLARIS -MT ha_innodb_plugin_la-lexyy.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ha_innodb_plugin_la-lexyy.Tpo -c pars/lexyy.c -o .libs/ha_innodb_plugin_la-lexyy.o
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../include -I../../regex -I./include -I../../sql -I. -shared -DMYSQL_DYNAMIC_PLUGIN -Wall -Wextra -Wunused -Wwrite-strings -Wno-uninitialized -D__sun -m32 -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T -DUNIV_SOLARIS -DUNIV_SOLARIS -MT ha_innodb_plugin_la-lexyy.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ha_innodb_plugin_la-lexyy.Tpo -c pars/lexyy.c -o ha_innodb_plugin_la-lexyy.o >/dev/null 2>&1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/root/mariadb-5.3.5-ga/storage/innodb_plugin'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/mariadb-5.3.5-ga/storage'

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I am really having a hard time installing it on solaris machine.

Launchpad bug id: 986120