Bug #46073 wrong instruction about building mysql with blackhole engine

• Submitted: 9 Jul 6:57
• Modified: 15 Jul 16:36
• Reporter: Alexey Kishkin
• Status: Duplicate
• Category: Server: Packaging
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.1
• OS: Any
• Target Version: 5.1+
• Triage: Triaged: D3 (Medium)

[9 Jul 6:57] Alexey Kishkin

Description:
documentation (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/blackhole-storage-engine.html)
says:

"To enable the BLACKHOLE storage engine if you build MySQL from source, invoke configure
with the --with-blackhole-storage-engine option. "

But as the matter of fact, when i try to build mysql 5.1.36:

 ./configure  --with-blackhole-storage-engine
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-blackhole-storage-engine

It looks like configure doesn't know about such option

How to repeat:
./configure  --with-blackhole-storage-engine

and compare to 5.1 documentation

Suggested fix:
rectify this chapter

[9 Jul 7:34] Valeriy Kravchuk

What exact version, 5.1.x, you had used? I do not see any warnings with current 5.1 from
bzr on Mac OS X:

valeriy-kravchuks-macbook-pro:mysql-5.1-work openxs$ ./configure 
--with-blackhole-storage-engine 2>&1 | grep WARNING
valeriy-kravchuks-macbook-pro:mysql-5.1-work openxs$

[9 Jul 7:55] Alexey Kishkin

5.1.36 on linux

[9 Jul 8:37] Sveta Smirnova

Thank you for the report.

Verified as described.

really problem does not exist in the development tree, but as we have bug #45056 and
5.1.36 was released after May, 25 I set status of this bug to "verified" and change to
packaging problem.

[15 Jul 16:36] Sergei Golubchik

it's a duplicate of BUG#42872

Note that despite the warning, the option works as advertised.