I will describe here very quickly how to compile sysbench under CentOS. Probably it will work for other distributions if you have the same problem.
Here’s the error:
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/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -pthread -g -O2 -o sysbench sysbench.o sb_timer.o sb_options.o sb_logger.o db_driver.o tests/fileio/libsbfileio.a tests/threads/libsbthreads.a tests/memory/libsbmemory.a tests/cpu/libsbcpu.a tests/oltp/libsboltp.a tests/mutex/libsbmutex.a drivers/mysql/libsbmysql.a -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/ -lmysqlclient_r -lrt -lm
../libtool: line 838: X--tag=CC: command not found
../libtool: line 871: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found
../libtool: line 838: X--mode=link: command not found
../libtool: line 1004: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.: command not found
../libtool: line 1005: *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found
../libtool: line 2231: X-g: command not found
../libtool: line 2231: X-O2: command not found
../libtool: line 1951: X-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 2400: Xsysbench: command not found
../libtool: line 2405: X: command not found
../libtool: line 2412: Xsysbench: command not found
../libtool: line 2420: mkdir /.libs: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 2547: X-lmysqlclient_r: command not found
../libtool: line 2547: X-lrt: command not found
../libtool: line 2547: X-lm: command not found
../libtool: line 2629: X-L/root/sysbench-0.4.12/sysbench: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 2547: X-lmysqlclient_r: command not found
../libtool: line 2547: X-lrt: command not found
../libtool: line 2547: X-lm: command not found
../libtool: line 2629: X-L/root/sysbench-0.4.12/sysbench: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 2547: X-lmysqlclient_r: command not found
../libtool: line 2547: X-lrt: command not found
../libtool: line 2547: X-lm: command not found
../libtool: line 5162: Xgcc -pthread "" "" -o @OUTPUT@ sysbench.o sb_timer.o sb_options.o sb_logger.o db_driver.o tests/fileio/libsbfileio.a tests/threads/libsbthreads.a tests/memory/libsbmemory.a tests/cpu/libsbcpu.a tests/oltp/libsboltp.a tests/mutex/libsbmutex.a drivers/mysql/libsbmysql.a -L/root/sysbench-0.4.12/sysbench -lmysqlclient_r -lrt -lm: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 5163: Xgcc -pthread "" "" -o @OUTPUT@ sysbench.o sb_timer.o sb_options.o sb_logger.o db_driver.o tests/fileio/libsbfileio.a tests/threads/libsbthreads.a tests/memory/libsbmemory.a tests/cpu/libsbcpu.a tests/oltp/libsboltp.a tests/mutex/libsbmutex.a drivers/mysql/libsbmysql.a -L/root/sysbench-0.4.12/sysbench -lmysqlclient_r -lrt -lm: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 5168: X: command not found
../libtool: line 5172: : command not found
There are some libtool errors, we will recreate all automake utilities with autogen:
$ ./autogen.sh
If you don’t get any error, run:
./configure
make
make install
All set, test it by running:
sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 run