remove FIX_GCC_LINKING_PROBLEM and -DDEFINE_CXA_PURE_VIRTUAL
  replace echo in configure.in with AC_MSG_WARN/AC_MSG_ERROR
  don't set -DUSE_MYSYS_NEW for gcc 2.95
  set $USE_MYSYS_NEW even if CXX is g++
  yassl bugfixes
  instantiate all yassl templates explicitly

 - Remove linking of libsupc++
 - Move all local static variables to filescope

Additional storage engine called "blackhole". Customer request, and for that matter a Zawodny request.  With this you can alter table to a type of table that would never store data. Its a /dev/null for a database.