Added option --with-big-tables

the current way of passing '-DBIG_TABLES' to the compilers.

This is needed even in 4.0, as 'Do-compile-all' must use this new approach for
all "max" builds in 4.0, 4.1, and up.

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.0

  If MySQL wrote to its binlog, but for some reason trx->update_undo and trx->insert_undo were NULL in InnoDB, then trx->commit_lsn was garbage, and InnoDB could assert in the log flush of trx_commit_complete_for_mysql() (Bug #9277)

into frost.snake.net:/Volumes/frost2/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.0

into quadxeon.mysql.com:/nfstmp1/guilhem/mysql-4.0-4xeon

When we come to create these, they may already exist and it's necessary to delete these old, useless copies.

into hundin.mysql.fi:/home/marko/k/mysql-4.0

  Fix path that needs no parameterization.

  dict_load_table(): Refuse to open ROW_FORMAT=COMPACT tables
  of MySQL 5.0.3 and later.

Item_func_equal::not_null_tables() always return 0.

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

  Fix bad root element name in DOCTYPE.  Sheesh.

into kite-hub.kitebird.com:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.0

  dict_load_table(): Remove the check for row_format=compact for now,
  because the flag bit we used (high-order bit of mix_len)
  has not been zero for at least two customers.

into hundin.mysql.fi:/home/marko/k/mysql-4.0

- bumped up version number in configure.in from 4.0.24 -> 4.0.25 (ChangeSet 1.2073 was already tagged
  as 4.0.24)

correct the definition of srv_max_buf_pool_modified_pct.

into gluh.mysql.r18.ru:/home/gluh/MySQL-BUGS/mysql-4.0.7498

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.0

to 'libmysql/net.c'.

Added a missing comma.

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.0

  Work around the AIX 5.1 ML7 patch problem in errno at a higher level, in srv0start.c
os0file.c:
  Revert the AIX patch here