Thanks to everybody, and to Rob Wultsch, his link helped me to understand what I was doing...
./configure select an automake configure or a perl one... I ended building mysql with innodb,heap,myisam and partitions, statically built with: ./configure --with-plugins=heap,partition,innobase,myisam --prefix=/usr/local/mysql5/ --with-plugin-heap --with-plugin-partition --with-plugin-innobase --with-plugin-myisam The first line says that the flags are recognzed: configure.pl : calling cmake /usr/src/mysql-5.5.4-m3 -DWITH_HEAP=1 -DWITH_PARTITION=1 -DWITH_INNOBASE=1 -DWITH_MYISAM=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/mysql5/ -DWITH_PLUGIN_HEAP=1 -DWITH_PLUGIN_PARTITION=1 -DWITH_PLUGIN_INNOBASE=1 -DWITH_PLUGIN_MYISAM=1 and after install: show engines; mysql> show engines; +--------------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ | Engine | Support | Comment | Transactions | XA | Savepoints | +--------------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ | MRG_MYISAM | YES | Collection of identical MyISAM tables | NO | NO | NO | | PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA | YES | Performance Schema | NO | NO | NO | | CSV | YES | CSV storage engine | NO | NO | NO | | InnoDB | YES | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys | YES | YES | YES | | MyISAM | DEFAULT | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance | NO | NO | NO | | MEMORY | YES | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables | NO | NO | NO | +--------------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ If I'm unable to get a report from the application, I will test partitions tomorrow, well, in a while xD Thanks everybody...
