Bug #58158 LINK_LIBRARIES for MYSQL_ADD_PLUGIN is not added to libmysqld
Submitted: 12 Nov 2010 9:26 Modified: 20 Dec 2010 3:26
Reporter: Magnus Blåudd Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.5.7-rc OS:Any
Assigned to: Magnus Blåudd CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: SEAGULL

[12 Nov 2010 9:26] Magnus Blåudd
Description:
When building 5.5 with ndbcluster, the ndbcluster plugin consists of ha_ndb* source files (which need to be compiled differently for embedded) and libndbclient which contains the NDB API etc.

Defined like this:
 MYSQL_ADD_PLUGIN(ndbcluster ${NDBCLUSTER_SOURCES} STORAGE_ENGINE
    DEFAULT STATIC_ONLY RECOMPILE_FOR_EMBEDDED LINK_LIBRARIES ndbclient)

When compiling libmysqld/examples/ the linking stage fails because all of the symbols from ndbclient is missing from libmysqld.

How to repeat:
 MYSQL_ADD_PLUGIN(ndbcluster ${NDBCLUSTER_SOURCES} STORAGE_ENGINE
    DEFAULT STATIC_ONLY RECOMPILE_FOR_EMBEDDED LINK_LIBRARIES ndbclient)

Suggested fix:
Merge libndbclient into libmysqld.

Whether it's possible to figure this out automatically or not, I don't know. Maybe it would be possible to detect that libndbclient is part of current build and not a sysystem library and thus add it to libmysqld. Otherwise we might need a STATIC_LINK_LIBRARIES directive to MYSQL_ADD_PLUGIN.

Workaround in storage/ndb/CMakeLists.txt
IF(WITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER)
  # Kludge libndbclient into variable used when creating libmysqld
  SET (MYSQLD_STATIC_PLUGIN_LIBS ${MYSQLD_STATIC_PLUGIN_LIBS}
     ndbclient CACHE INTERNAL "" FORCE)
ENDIF()
[15 Nov 2010 14:16] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/123910
[15 Nov 2010 16:13] Vladislav Vaintroub
Hi Magnus,
this looks good. However, after some thinking I think we should this still in place.

-  IF(BUILD_PLUGIN AND ARG_LINK_LIBRARIES)
-    TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (${target} ${ARG_LINK_LIBRARIES})
-  ENDIF()

If we remove that, it create a problem for plugins compiled as shared, in the environments where unresolved symbols are not permitted.

For example, I think (did not try yet) that 

cmake .. -DWITH_INNOBASE_STORAGE_ENGINE=0 -DWITH_ZLIB=system on OSX would fail to link OSX, since zlib symbols would be missing when linking ha_innobase.so

For plugins compiled as static, TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES  is less of a problem but could still be useful for standalone test programs (we have some for myisam and heap).

The only downside of having TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES is that they could appear couple if times in the linker command line for mysqld, but this is cosmetics.
[16 Nov 2010 9:06] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/123996
[25 Nov 2010 0:23] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/124953

3141 Vladislav Vaintroub	2010-11-25
      Post-fix for Bug#58158 on Solaris
      
      Problem : The build might fail with 
      make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../sql/z',
      needed by `sql/mysqld_dtrace_all.o'.  Stop.
      if one of plugins would depends on system libz 
      library
      
      Fix: Filter out non-static dependent libraries
      when dtracing static libs
[5 Dec 2010 12:39] Bugs System
Pushed into mysql-trunk 5.6.1 (revid:alexander.nozdrin@oracle.com-20101205122447-6x94l4fmslpbttxj) (version source revid:alexander.nozdrin@oracle.com-20101205122447-6x94l4fmslpbttxj) (merge vers: 5.6.1) (pib:23)
[11 Dec 2010 17:13] Paul DuBois
Bug does not appear in any 5.6.x release.

Setting report to Need Merge pending push to 5.5.x.
[17 Dec 2010 12:51] Bugs System
Pushed into mysql-5.5 5.5.9 (revid:georgi.kodinov@oracle.com-20101217124733-p1ivu6higouawv8l) (version source revid:azundris@sun.com-20101125051437-3pavhs14p7zhks0c) (merge vers: 5.5.8) (pib:24)
[20 Dec 2010 3:26] Paul DuBois
Noted in 5.5.9 changelog.

CMake did not add LINK_LIBRARIES for MYSQL_ADD_PLUGIN for libmysqld.