4.6.3.2 HP-UX notes

The binary distribution of MySQL for HP-UX is distributed as an HP depot file and as a tar file. To use the depot file you must be running at least HP-UX 10.x to have access to HP's software depot tools.

The HP version of MySQL was compiled on an HP 9000/8xx server under HP-UX 10.20, and uses MIT-pthreads. It is known to work well under this configuration. MySQL 3.22.26 and newer can also be built with HP's native thread package.

Other configurations that may work:

• HP 9000/7xx running HP-UX 10.20+
• HP 9000/8xx running HP-UX 10.30

The following configurations almost definitely won't work:

• HP 9000/7xx or 8xx running HP-UX 10.x where x < 2
• HP 9000/7xx or 8xx running HP-UX 9.x

To install the distribution, use one of the commands below, where /path/to/depot is the full pathname of the depot file:

• To install everything, including the server, client and development tools:

  shell> /usr/sbin/swinstall -s /path/to/depot mysql.full
  

• To install only the server:

  shell> /usr/sbin/swinstall -s /path/to/depot mysql.server
  

• To install only the client package:

  shell> /usr/sbin/swinstall -s /path/to/depot mysql.client
  

• To install only the development tools:

  shell> /usr/sbin/swinstall -s /path/to/depot mysql.developer
  

The depot places binaries and libraries in `/opt/mysql' and data in `/var/opt/mysql'. The depot also creates the appropriate entries in `/sbin/init.d' and `/sbin/rc2.d' to start the server automatically at boot time. Obviously, this entails being root to install.

To install the HP-UX tar distribution, you must have a copy of gnu tar.