Description:
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It seems that my PHP works grand without the MySQL 4.0.13 library. Using the bundled library prevents any crashes in phpmyadmin. For some reason, the external library crashes the system, when trying to browse the database in phpmyadmin. 

System => Linux mordor 2.4.20-grsec #10 Thu Apr 17 18:28:33 EEST 2003 i686
Build Date => Jul 18 2003 13:22:57
Configure Command =>  './configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--localstatedir=/var' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dba' '--enable-dbase' '--enable-dbx' '--enable-dio' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-mime-magic' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php4/apache' '--with-zlib' '--with-bz2' '--with-dom' '--with-gd=/usr' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--with-t1lib=/usr' '--with-iconv=/usr' '--with-java=/opt/j2sdk1.4.1_01' '--wi\
th-ldap=/usr' '--with-mcal=/usr' '--with-mcrypt=/usr' '--with-mhash=/usr' '--with-recode=/usr' '--with-mm=/usr' '--with-gdbm=/usr' '--enable-versioning' '--with-dom-xslt' '--with-dom-exslt' '--with-gettext' '--with-ncurses' '--with-readline' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-xslt' '--with-xslt-sablot' '--with-expat-dir=/usr' '--with-zip'

This is the compilation line I used

Compiler:
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i386-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3 (Debian)

MySQL configure:
'--prefix=/usr' '--with-comment' '--with-libwrap=/usr/lib' '--with-mysqld-user=mysql' '--with-tcp-port=3306' '--with-unix-socket-path=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' '--without-debug' '--enable-thread-safe-client' '--enable-assembler' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--without-pstack' '--without-bench'