merge with 4.0 for more memory allocation variables.

configure.in:
  Auto merged
mysql-test/r/variables.result:
  Auto merged
mysql-test/t/variables.test:
  Auto merged
sql/ha_berkeley.cc:
  Auto merged
sql/mysql_priv.h:
  Auto merged
sql/opt_range.h:
  Auto merged
sql/sql_acl.cc:
  Auto merged
sql/sql_select.cc:
  Auto merged
sql/sql_test.cc:
  Auto merged
sql/sql_udf.cc:
  Auto merged
sql/sql_update.cc:
  Auto merged
sql/table.cc:
  Auto merged
scripts/Makefile.am:
  merge
sql/log_event.cc:
  merge
sql/mysqld.cc:
  merge
sql/opt_range.cc:
  merge
sql/set_var.cc:
  merge
sql/sql_class.h:
  merge
sql/sql_delete.cc:
  merge
sql/sql_parse.cc:
  merge

scripts/Makefile.am

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ bin_SCRIPTS =		@server_scripts@ \
 			mysql_create_system_tables
 
 EXTRA_SCRIPTS =		make_binary_distribution.sh \
+			make_sharedlib_distribution.sh \
 			make_win_src_distribution.sh \
 			msql2mysql.sh \
 			mysql_config.sh \
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ dist_pkgdata_DATA =		fill_help_tables.sql mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql
 # failures with it.
 CLEANFILES =		@server_scripts@ \
 			make_binary_distribution \
+			make_sharedlib_distribution \
 			msql2mysql \
 			mysql_config \
 			mysql_fix_privilege_tables \
@@ -141,7 +143,7 @@ SUFFIXES = .sh
 # Don't update the files from bitkeeper
 %::SCCS/s.%
 
-all: fill_help_tables.sql make_win_src_distribution make_binary_distribution
+all: fill_help_tables.sql make_win_src_distribution make_binary_distribution make_sharedlib_distribution
 
 fill_help_tables.sql: fill_help_tables ../Docs/manual.texi
 		./fill_help_tables < ../Docs/manual.texi > fill_help_tables.sql

scripts/make_sharedlib_distribution.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# The default path should be /usr/local
+
+# Get some info from configure
+# chmod +x ./scripts/setsomevars
+
+machine=@MACHINE_TYPE@
+system=@SYSTEM_TYPE@
+version=@VERSION@
+export machine system version
+SOURCE=`pwd` 
+CP="cp -p"
+MV="mv"
+
+STRIP=1
+DEBUG=0
+SILENT=0
+TMP=/tmp
+SUFFIX=""
+
+parse_arguments() {
+  for arg do
+    case "$arg" in
+      --debug)    DEBUG=1;;
+      --tmp=*)    TMP=`echo "$arg" | sed -e "s;--tmp=;;"` ;;
+      --suffix=*) SUFFIX=`echo "$arg" | sed -e "s;--suffix=;;"` ;;
+      --no-strip) STRIP=0 ;;
+      --silent)   SILENT=1 ;;
+      *)
+	echo "Unknown argument '$arg'"
+	exit 1
+        ;;
+    esac
+  done
+}
+
+parse_arguments "$@"
+
+BASE=$TMP/my_dist$SUFFIX
+
+if [ -d $BASE ] ; then
+ rm -r -f $BASE
+fi
+
+mkdir -p $BASE/lib
+
+for i in \
+  libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so* \
+  libmysql_r/.libs/libmysqlclient_r.so*
+do
+  if [ -f $i ]
+  then
+    $CP $i $BASE/lib
+   fi
+done
+
+# Change the distribution to a long descriptive name
+NEW_NAME=mysql-shared-$version-$system-$machine$SUFFIX
+BASE2=$TMP/$NEW_NAME
+rm -r -f $BASE2
+mv $BASE $BASE2
+BASE=$BASE2
+
+#if we are debugging, do not do tar/gz
+if [ x$DEBUG = x1 ] ; then
+ exit
+fi
+
+# This is needed to prefer GNU tar instead of tar because tar can't
+# always handle long filenames
+
+PATH_DIRS=`echo $PATH | sed -e 's/^:/. /' -e 's/:$/ ./' -e 's/::/ . /g' -e 's/:/ /g' `
+which_1 ()
+{
+  for cmd
+  do
+    for d in $PATH_DIRS
+    do
+      for file in $d/$cmd
+      do
+	if test -x $file -a ! -d $file
+	then
+	  echo $file
+	  exit 0
+	fi
+      done
+    done
+  done
+  exit 1
+}
+
+#
+# Create the result tar file
+#
+
+tar=`which_1 gnutar gtar`
+if test "$?" = "1" -o "$tar" = ""
+then
+  tar=tar
+fi
+
+echo "Using $tar to create archive"
+cd $TMP
+
+OPT=cvf
+if [ x$SILENT = x1 ] ; then
+  OPT=cf
+fi
+
+$tar $OPT $SOURCE/$NEW_NAME.tar $NEW_NAME
+cd $SOURCE
+echo "Compressing archive"
+gzip -9 $NEW_NAME.tar
+echo "Removing temporary directory"
+rm -r -f $BASE
+
+echo "$NEW_NAME.tar.gz created"