MySQL Bugs: #39317: agent installer fails with mysqlclient-libs in nonstandard location

Bug #39317	agent installer fails with mysqlclient-libs in nonstandard location
Submitted:	8 Sep 2008 15:34	Modified:	12 Nov 2008 13:11
Reporter:	Johan Idrén	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Agent	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	2.0.0.7042	OS:	MacOS (10.5.4)
Assigned to:	Jan Kneschke	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Having mysqlclient-libs in non-standard location breaks agent 2.0.0.7042 installer with library not found errors

How to repeat:
Don't have libs in /usr/local/mysql/libs, install 2.0.0.7042 agent on os x

I used https://update.mysql.com/beta/monitor/2.0.0.7042/agents/mysqlmonitoragent-2.0.0.7042-osx10...

7047 does not exhibit this particular problem.

Suggested fix:
Ship mysqlclient-libs with agent, as mysql might not be installed on server at installtime or if the agent is to monitor a non-local server.

I'm not sure if this an installer error or not. The requested fix doesn't suggest that.  If it is an installer error please re-assign to 'Keith'.
"Suggested fix:
Ship mysqlclient-libs with agent, as mysql might not be installed on
server at installtime or if the agent is to monitor a non-local server."

It's an installer error that prompted me to suggest that we ship the mysqlclient libs with the agent, as it renders the client somewhat useless if it can't find them, and rather than add more search paths we should be prepared for a user not having mysqlclient libs installed as it makes agent installation harder to break.

* before .7042 we linked against a static libmysqlclient.
* between .7042 and .7047 we switched to build it fully shared and missed to bundle the shared libmysqlclient
* from .7047 on we do bundle it

Verified fixed in build 2.0.0.7049.

An entry was added to the 2.0 changelog:

If the MySQL client libraries were located in a non-standard location, the agent 2.0.0.7042 installer failed with a “library not found” error.