ft_min_word_len unrecognized on Red Hat >= 9

[Kenneth Porter]

Jonathan Schatz <jon at vmware.com> wrote in 
news:1087248243.22341.12.camel at jonschatz-lx.eng.vmware.com:

> are you sure you're using the right version of mysql? you need mysql >=
> 4.0 to use that environment variable:
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Fulltext_Fine-tuning.html

So I've discovered. And Fedora doesn't ship with a v4 MySQL, so it's 
necessary to upgrade using the SRPM at the MySQL site. I found some bugs 
registered about this so I'll probably bite the bullet and upgrade the DB.