"wbarwell" <wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com> wrote in message
news:12293ujjbam6r71@corp.supernews.com...
> Needless to say, MySQl is totally silent on their
> site about this problem, at least if you want it
> right, fast and now. Probably buried in some footnote
> deep and hard to find.

That gave me an idea; I tried the trick of "site:" in a Google search. I
searched using this:
site:bugs.mysql.com "PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

And came up with this: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=7117
"MySQL Administrator requires a GTK that is too bleeding edge"

It's reported by another user using Mandrake Linux (9.1 in their case), who
is also having troubles with GTK version conflicts while compiling
MySQL-gui-common. Perhaps Mandrake just doesn't include the right set of
libraries to make this build work.

MySQL AB closed the bug report, with status "Won't fix." :-(

If it were me, I'd try to use the MySQL Administrator pre-built binary for
Linux, instead of building it from source. Unless this is on hardware other
than Intel or AMD.

Failing that, use MySQL Administrator on another non-Mandrake machine and
connect remotely to the MySQL host. Though not all administration functions
can be done remotely (such as starting the service).

Failing that, use phpmyadmin or equivalent web-based administration tool.

Regards,
Bill K.