After running ./configure --enable-mysql , the top-level makefile is not generated.

Looking at the output of configure I guess this is where it goes wrong:

configure: creating ./config.status
Uhh. Malformed pattern in ./confstatVesTw6/subs.sed (s,@mysql_includes@,Usage: /usr/bin/mysql_config [OPTIONS]) at admin/config.pl line 106.

Since I love the speed increase from using MySQL over SQLlite I really don\'t want to use the SQLlite engine.

./configure --help

And then ?

Hi,

what exactly did you do?
I just tried:
- download amarok-1.2-beta3.tar.bz2
- tar xjf amarok-1.2-beta3.tar.bz2
- cd amarok-1.2-beta3
- ./configure --enable-mysql
-> no errors

Regards,
Andreas

Andreas, would you post your mysql version and the name of your (linux?) distribution

dont know why, but it configures and compiled correctly after updating my libmysqlclient (via apt)

It works after updating libmysqlclient

Maybe there should be a version check with a friendly error message in the configure script ?