MySQL Bugs: #23700: MacOS X package structures not matching default build structure of ./configure

Bug #23700	MacOS X package structures not matching default build structure of ./configure
Submitted:	27 Oct 2006 0:06	Modified:	17 Aug 2017 8:20
Reporter:	Andreas Fink	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Packaging	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.0.26	OS:	MacOS (MacOS X 10.4.8)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The MacOS X packages built and put on MySQL website should match in their structure the ones built from source. Having /usr/local/mysql being a symlink to a version directory is ok in my eyes but then having

/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql/   in one case
and 
/usr/local/mysql/include/
in the other makes it hard to develop software with either version (think of open source developers giving their stuff out with ./configure scripts, breaking all the time because they get lost where those header files finally are). Even worse with libraries.

How to repeat:
install pkg form website 

---or---

build form source with

./configure --prefix=/usr/local

Suggested fix:
make it the same.

Thanks for the report, and our apologies for not driving this to closure a long time ago. Closing now, since this is for an obsolete version of MySQL on an obsolete platform. Furthermore, Mac OS packaging/build was rearchitected several times since this was reported.