Applied some changes to the mysql.server init script that are already shipped as an additional patch
in the 4.1.10a RPMs for SLES9/RHEL3:

- small improvement: use LSB functions to display startup success and failure, if available.
  Fall back to more primitive builtin functions otherwise.
- joined two pieces of code performing the same functionality into one "wait_for_pid" function
- added a "reload" function (LSB requirement)

 - Moved static variables defined inside of function to file scope to avoid this linking problem on FC3

correct top_level_item for XOR

  Added a test case for bug #9017.
item_cmpfunc.h:
  A wrong not_null_tables method for Item_cond_xor
  caused a conversion of a left join into an inner join
  that was not valid.

into mysql.com:/home/jimw/my/mysql-4.1-clean

into mysql.com:/M41/mysql-4.1

into here.mwagner.org:/Users/mwagner/work/bk/mysql-4.1

  Many changes to improve error handling, and fix problem of multiple packaging processes trampling each other (32 & 64bit at the same time)

Item_func_equal::not_null_tables() always return 0.

adapt the Windows build files accordingly.

into mysql.com:/home/timka/mysql/src/4.1-dbg

into hundin.mysql.fi:/home/heikki/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/home/jonas/src/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/home/jonas/src/mysql-4.1

ndb - Reenable MAX_OPEN_FILES to enable LCP in some situations

into rurik.mysql.com:/home/igor/dev/mysql-4.1-0

  Correction after manual merge.

  Better ibbackup message
  Add a message explaining why we do a 'crash recovery' after an ibbackup restore; suggested by Tim Smith

The reported problems were due to two completely unrelated omissions.
1) The file sort procedure didn't correctly create the sort key in
   make_sortkey when the sortkey was an unsigned integer.
2) The name resolution procedure for column references inside a HAVING
   clause did not propagate the unsigned_flag of the resolved references.
This patch corrects both problems.

  bug#4914 added --help and usage information

    preserve backward compatibility

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.1

    recalculate stats/gws for the last word in the index too
    remove unused code

  Added a test case for bug #8669.
item_strfunc.cc:
  Fixed bug #8669.
  Function AES_DECRYPT can return NULL value.

(recommit as 4.1->5.0 merge is not possible)

  bug#5102, bug#6862 define HAVE_VIS_H to libedit only if header and strvis() exists

  Removed -c from /bin/sh call
make_win_src_distribution.sh:
  Copy all content in mysql-test
make_win_binary_distribution.sh, make_binary_distribution.sh:
  Add Perl version of mysql-test-run to package
s_win32_dsp, s_win32, s_vxworks, s_test, s_readme, s_java, s_javah:
  Bug #6209 changes for building Berkeley DB from BitKeeper on Solaris

  main(): add missing parameter to printf(ER(ER_READY),...) call

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.1

  Add dummy changelog file. It should merge upward without conflict.

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.1

for fulltext searches too

  dict_load_table(): Do not complain about mix_len != 0,
  because MySQL 3.23.4x left garbage in that column.