Bug #42971 Make mysqld self-describing by storing compile and bzr information in it
Submitted: 18 Feb 2009 13:37
Reporter: Philip Stoev Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:6.0 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[18 Feb 2009 13:37] Philip Stoev 
Description:
We have a need in QA that the mysqld binary is made self-describing by the addition of an option equivalent to perl -V that provides information on where the binary came from and how it was compiled.

How to repeat:
Download a mysqld binary and a core from PB2 and try to figure where the mysqld came from and how it was compiled.

Suggested fix:
Below is a sample output from perl -V. In addition to those items, it would be nice to have the output from bzr version-info and any other ways to uniquely identify the binary and the codebase where it came from.

[philips@fedora10 6.0-falcon-team]$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.18-92.1.10.el5, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux x86-7.fedora.phx.redhat.com 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 #1 smp wed jul 23 03:56:11 edt 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -Dversion=5.10.0 -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -std=gnu99 -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dprivlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 -Dsitelib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 -Dvendorlib=/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 -Darchlib=/usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dinc_version_list=none -Darchname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dlibpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dd_gethostent_r_proto -Ud_endhostent_r_proto -Ud_sethostent_r_proto -Ud_endprotoent_r_proto -Ud_setprotoent_r_proto -Ud_endservent_r_proto -Ud_setservent_r_proto -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl:/usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc -std=gnu99', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc -std=gnu99', ldflags =''
    libpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64
    libs=-lresolv -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.9'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: DEBUGGING MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
                        PERL_TRACK_MEMPOOL PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
                        USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Nov 28 2008 19:15:11
[3 Apr 2009 14:10] Philip Stoev 
We also need at least the globally-unique BZR build ID to be printed in SHOW VARIABLES . Every other product (Windows, VMWare server), I can think of has such an ID.
[6 Apr 2009 12:39] Guilhem Bichot 
Yes, yes, and yes!
[31 Jan 2011 20:38] Joerg Bruehe 
I propose to take a look at bug#42969, a fix for which is now "patch pending" in MySQL 5.5.

It adds a file "INFO_SRC" to a source tarball (as used in release builds) which contains the output of "bzr version-info", this could be the input for the file demanded here.
(Of course, this cannot be guaranteed - if somebody exports the sources from BZR, that "version-info" cannot be constructed later.)