MySQL issues on Solaris 11/sparc

[Laurent Blume]

Hello all,

Dagobert has pointed out that the MySQL packages don't work on Solaris
11/sparc, failing with this error:

This seems t151104  9:56:09 [Note] /opt/csw/libexec/mysqld (mysqld
5.5.46) starting as process 19236 ...
151104  9:56:09 [ERROR] Initialization of transaction delegates failed.
Please report a bug.
151104  9:56:09 [ERROR] Aborting

o be a known bug about which Oracle does not give much of a shit, since
they provide a magical «fix», but no solution.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/dimstat/596RKYcVPIQ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dimstat/GiewfGElRZk

The workaround is to use the MySQL 5.6 package in 64 mode. Edit or
create /etc/opt/csw/csw.conf after installing it, and add this line:
mysql56_arch=sparcv9

I'll make it use 64 bit as default instead of the historical 32 in a respin.
MySQL 5.5 32 bit, MySQL 5.5 64 bit, MySQL 5.6 32 bit, all have the same
issue on Solaris 11/sparc exclusively.

I will not investigate further. If somebody wants to, you're welcome to it.

Regards,

Laurent