MySQL Manual
7 MySQL Table Types
7.6.6 Operating systems supported by BDB
Currently we know that the BDB storage engine works with the following
operating systems:
- Linux 2.x Intel
- Sun Solaris (sparc and x86)
- FreeBSD 4.x/5.x (x86, sparc64)
- IBM AIX 4.3.x
- SCO OpenServer
- SCO UnixWare 7.1.x
It doesn't work with the following operating systems:
- Linux 2.x Alpha
- Linux 2.x AMD64
- Linux 2.x IA64
- Linux 2.x s390
- Max OS X
Note: The above list is not complete; we will update it as we receive more information.
If you build MySQL with support for BDB tables and get
the following error in the log file when you start mysqld:
bdb: architecture lacks fast mutexes: applications cannot be threaded Can't init databases
This means that BDB tables are not supported for your architecture.
In this case you must rebuild MySQL without BDB table support.
