`configure` Options

The configure script offers a great deal of control over how to configure a MySQL source distribution.
- Options are typically added on the configure command line.
- Certain environment variables may also be used to alter the configuration.

A full list of options supported by configure may be obtained by this command

Here are some of the typical configure options.
- To compile just the MySQL client libraries and client programs and not the server.
  
  ./configure --without-server
- To build the embedded MySQL library.
  
  ./configure --with-embedded-server
- To have everything installed under /usr/local/mysql rather than the default of /usr/local
  
  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
- To compile statically linked programs for perhaps better performance.
  
  ./configure --with-client-ldflags=-all-static \ --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static
- To configure MySQL with debugging code.
  
  ./configure --with-debug

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