LP:465327 - 5.1.38 RC x86_64 binaries do not work on RHEL 5

The 5.1.38 RC binaries require a very recent version of glibc. The download page does mention this: "The binaries are built on Ubuntu 9.04 systems, linked against libc 2.9."

However, most production linux systems won't have this new of a glibc. For example, RHEL 5.X uses glibc 2.5.

When you try to run it, you get:

./mysqld: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.8' not found (required by ./mysqld)
./mysqld: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./mysqld)