Make ports configurable from environment for test

  Fix bug #12779 : never give a row count estimate of 0 to the MySQL query optimizer, as then left join optimizer may beleive it KNOWS that the table is empty; note that this fix may change query optimization of many other queries where one table is empty; note that the proper fix would be to make the query optimizer to know that the row count estimates it receives really are just estimates, it cannot assume they are certain

against a later version of libc.

into mysql.com:/space/my/mysql-4.0-merge

  preflight/postflight instead, so they are run every time a PKG is installed, not only for
  a fresh installation

  change was too drastic) (BUG#12506)

into  krsna.patg.net:/home/patg/mysql-build/mysql-4.0

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.0.12177

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.0.12177

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.0.10226

  the MySQL-server RPM spec file (BUG#12348)

  Fix compilation error in previous commit

  Backport of Bug #9670 to 4.0: assertion failure in ut_a(cursor->old_stored == BTR_PCUR_OLD_STORED)

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.0.10226

Repair crashes mysql when table has fulltext index.

needed to be fixed in earlier versions)
Fixed the iteration of how substrings are handled with negative indexes in 
SUBSTRING_INDEX

Fixed portability problem with bool in C programs
Moved close_thread_tables out from LOCK_thread_count mutex (safety fix)
my_sleep() -> pthread_cond_timedwait()

  make_win_src_distribution are created, but not installed
- removed make_win_binary_distribution.sh as it's obsolete and outdated

into  mysql.com:/home/stewart/Documents/MySQL/4.0/main

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.0.clean

into  mysql.com:/home/stewart/Documents/MySQL/4.0/main

into mysql.com:/space/my/mysql-4.0

  they're not needed outside of the source tree (BUG#12057)
- Removed some more unneeded files from "make install" along the way

remove_table_from_cache fails to signal other thread and gets
blocked when other thread also gets blocked

- create a "mysql" user group and assign the mysql user account to that group
  in the server postinstall section. (BUG 10984)
- backported some changes from the 4.1 RPM spec file (cleanups: removed the incomplete
  Brazilian translations, more consequent use of macros)

Only reproducable in 5.1-wl2325, although the missing code is missing from 4.0 and up.

  all versions: added an option "--machine" that allows to override the autodetected
  architecture string (e.g. "i386") that becomes part of the binary package name with 
  a different one
- moved the removal of the BASE directory to the end of the make_binary_distribution
  script

into mysql.com:/space/my/mysql-4.0-build