14.5.1. Operating Systems Supported by BDB
Currently, we know that the BDB storage
engine works with the following operating systems:
The BDB storage engine does
not work with the following operating
systems:
Linux 2.x Alpha
Linux 2.x AMD64
Linux 2.x IA-64
Linux 2.x s390
Mac OS X
Note: The preceding lists are
not complete. We update them as we receive more information.
If you build MySQL from source with support for
BDB tables, but the following error occurs
when you start mysqld, it means that the
BDB storage engine is not supported for your
architecture:
bdb: architecture lacks fast mutexes: applications cannot be threaded
Can't init databases
In this case, you must rebuild MySQL without
BDB support or start the server with the
--skip-bdb option.
