Fixed various issues to deal with untarring of gpl tar file, clearing configure.in, changed calls to use system vs. backticks

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.1.4014

use MYSQL_TCP_PORT instead of 3306 in tests

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

  Reuse some code between simple and UCA collations.

- For simple character sets: from_uni convertion table.
- For UCA: alternative weight arrays.
Use mbminlen instead of MY_CS_NONTEXT

reset mysql->status if there was an error in row reading.

  Put back the ha_innodb.cc source code lines that were accidentally removed in Jan Lindstrom's push yesterday (he used the account heikki@mysql.com)

into mysql.com:/home/kostja/mysql/mysql-4.1-root

some reason wasn't included before.
A lot of files cleaned up from #include <assert.h>

correct prefix compare with my_strnncoll

close table before opening in optimize

into sanja.is.com.ua:/home/bell/mysql/bk/work-count-4.1

into mysql.com:/home/mysql_src/mysql-4.1-874

exactly it's mapped to "ALTER TABLE t; ANALYZE TABLE t;"

New option --sync-binlog=x (and global settable variable) which will fsync the binlog
after every x-th disk write to it. That is, if in autocommit mode, after every x-th statement
written to the binlog; if using transactions, after every x-th transaction written to the binlog.
x==0 means no fsync. x==1 is the slowest.
There is no test added for this, I have just checked that it works as --sync-binlog=1 dramatically
slows down mysqld.
Made sync-frm a global settable variable.

into mysql.com:/home/mysql_src/mysql-4.1-1595

error messages when a query goes wrong.
Note that from now on, if you run with --slave-skip-error=xx, then nothing will
be printed to the error log when the slave is having this error xx and
skipping it (but you don't care as you want to skip it).

into poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-ndb

Added function 

/***********************************************************************
This function stores binlog offset and flushes logs */


void innobase_store_binlog_offset_and_flush_log(char *binlog_name,longlong offset) 
requested by Guilhem to ha_innodb.cc and ha_innodb.h. 

Change made by Jan.Lindstrom@innodb.com

into mysql.com:/home/pem/work/mysql-4.1

into mc05.(none):/space2/tomas/mysql-4.1-ndb-test

The bug was caused by error in hash calculation function: it
always returned hash value for last field in a composite key, so 
for keys like (a text, b char(1)) we were always
getting bad hash values.
 

into poseidon.bredbandsbolaget.se:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-ndb

server crashed checking thd->priv_user[0] and thd->priv_user is NULL
if NO_EMBEDDED_ACCESS_CHECKS is on.
Now i set it to be the same as thd->user

Problem is that store_string_aux calls 'wrong' net_store_data

into mysql.com:/home/mysql_src/mysql-4.1-874