Kristian Nielsen
Just to avoid duplicate work, let me just mention that I am now starting to look into this issue. I will try to find a good way to make XtraDB compile/work on all the platforms/compilers we want to support, and report back what I discover.
I got some good progress on this. I re-did the merge using the merge-into bzr plugin (advise from bzr developers). This should allow us to merge directly from the lp:percona-xtradb tree into lp:maria in the future. I placed the files in storage/xtradb/ and left storage/innodb/ in place. This should hopefully make merging from MySQL slightly easier, and seems to work well (and it is kind of nice also). I integrated the XtraDB testsuite into the tree so there is no need to run setup.sh or anything. I also fixed a number of test suite failures, and even a small bug or two. I fixed the code to compile without GCC atomic operation intrinsics. Performance will be worse of course, but it is good to have it at least working. I still need to fix Maria configure.in to not disable GCC atomics for xtradb by default. I pushed the result so far to Launchpad: lp:~maria-captains/maria/mariadb-xtradb-merge2 In particular you might be interested in the changeset 2702: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/mariadb-xtradb-merge2/revi... Maybe you will want to merge some of that back into XtraDB? Comments are welcome, of course. I think that after fixing GCC atomics in configure this should be ready to push into MariaDB 5.1. Would be good to get a review of especially the 2702 commit. - Kristian.