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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Chris!

Thanks.
I've pushed a fix into a testing branch.
The commit hash is 61be53a9c40 if you want to apply it as a workaround.

Another workaround would be to do 'mkdir -p destdir/usr/bin'
before 'make DESTDIR=destdir install'

Regards,
Sergei
VP of MariaDB Server Engineering
and security@xxxxxxxxxxx

On Sep 11, Chris Ross (cross2) wrote:
> Following up, with some more specifics...
> 
> After configuring with below options, we have the first `maria*config`
> find(1) results, and then running “make” yields the expected binary :
> 
> % find . -name maria\*config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/libmariadb/mariadb_config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/debian/mariadb-server-10.5.config
> 
> <make>
> % find . -name maria\*config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/libmariadb/mariadb_config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/libmariadb/mariadb_config/mariadb_config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/debian/mariadb-server-10.5.config
> 
> Then, a “make DESTDIR=destdir install” yields the following:
> 
> ./destdir/usr/bin/mariadb_config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/libmariadb/mariadb_config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/libmariadb/mariadb_config/mariadb_config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/debian/mariadb-server-10.5.config
> 
> And, after no other changes, rerunning the exact same make install
> command produces the following.  Clearly, something is wrong with the
> make install process.  So, should the first install create the
> sym-link, but isn’t?  Or, is it configured in some way that the
> sym-link shouldn’t be created, and it is, but only when running make
> install twice?
> 
> ./destdir/usr/bin/mariadb_config
> ./destdir/usr/bin/mariadb-config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/libmariadb/mariadb_config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/libmariadb/mariadb_config/mariadb_config
> ./srcdir/mariadb-10.5.5/debian/mariadb-server-10.5.config
> 
> % ls -l destdir/usr/bin/maria*config
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 cross2 5011 25936 Sep 11 14:05 destdir/usr/bin/mariadb_config
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 cross2 5011    14 Sep 11 14:56 destdir/usr/bin/mariadb-config -> mariadb_config
> 
> Please let me know.  This looks like a bug in the build/install
> process, but I want to know how to work around it on my side while the
> fix is developed.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> --
> Chris Ross
> Software Engineering Manager – Eventing/Datastore Teams
> cross2@xxxxxxxxx