MySQL on FreeBSD 6

Ultimate speed, using LINUX threads. With a UTF8 character encoding as the default. Simply add this to your /etc/make.conf :

# MySQL with LINUX threads & UTF encoding...
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/ports/databases/mysql*}

  BUILD_STATIC=yes
  BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes
  WITH_LINUXTHREADS=yes
  WITH_CHARSET=utf8
  WITH_COLLATION=utf8_general_ci

.endif