MySQL Bugs: #2389: my_config.h defines PACKAGE and VERSION, troubling automaking client software

Bug #2389	my_config.h defines PACKAGE and VERSION, troubling automaking client software
Submitted:	14 Jan 2004 7:41	Modified:	23 Jun 2005 7:34
Reporter:	Lenz Grimmer	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	4.1	OS:	Linux (Debian Linux)
Assigned to:	Sergei Golubchik	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Found in the Debian Bug Database:

[SNIP]
when building a client package using automake/autoconf, make runs into trouble
because /usr/include/mysql/my_config.h defines PACKAGE and VERSION, which 
should now be redefined for the my own client package by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
There is a workaround by either disabling PACKAGE and VERSION in the client
automake or #undefining them while declaring new variables, but this cripples
some of automake's distribution support features.
[SNIP]

How to repeat:
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=157842 for the full report

This is a problem with our configure.in.  Perhaps adding a third argument to

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mysql, 5.0.0-alpha)

would solve the problem.  It may cause other problems, if any other packages are depending on having VERSION and PACKAGE exported from mysql.h.  But I believe that the correct thing to do is to not export them, at least not in a public header like mysql.h.

See the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE entry here for details:
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Macros

I don't see any reference to my_config.h in mysql.h
Thus PACKAGE/VERSION are not exported - one is not expected to include my_config.h

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> [30 Jul 2004 16:57] Sergei Golubchik
> I don't see any reference to my_config.h in mysql.h
> Thus PACKAGE/VERSION are not exported - one is not expected to include
> my_config.h

ACK, I guess you can close this bug now, I guess.

bye,

-christian-