MySQL Sphinx as Storage Engine installation on Centos

 cd /usr/local/src/

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.2.10-release.tar.gz
wget https://downloads.mariadb.com/archives/mysql-5.1/mysql-5.1.59.tar.gz

tar -xzvf sphinx-2.2.10-release.tar.gz
tar -xzvf mysql-5.1.59.tar.gz

cp -R sphinx-2.2.10-release/mysqlse/ mysql-5.1.59/storage/sphinx

patch -p1 -i storage/sphinx/sphinx.5.0.91.diff
sh BUILD/autorun.sh

./configure
make

cd /usr/local/src/mysql-5.1.59/storage/sphinx/.libs
cp -aprv ha_sphinx* /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/

mysql -u root -p -h localhost mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN sphinx SONAME 'ha_sphinx.so';

mysql> show engines;
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| Engine     | Support | Comment                                                        | Transactions | XA   | Savepoints |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| InnoDB     | YES     | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys     | YES          | YES  | YES        |
| MRG_MYISAM | YES     | Collection of identical MyISAM tables                          | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| BLACKHOLE  | YES     | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears) | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| CSV        | YES     | CSV storage engine                                             | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| SPHINX     | YES     | Sphinx storage engine 2.2.10-release                           | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| FEDERATED  | YES     | Federated MySQL storage engine                                 | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| ARCHIVE    | YES     | Archive storage engine                                         | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| MEMORY     | YES     | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables      | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| MyISAM     | DEFAULT | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance         | NO           | NO   | NO         |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)


If you need to uninstall the sphinx plugin for some reason later on, this is how you do it:

mysql> UNINSTALL PLUGIN sphinx;