Bug #25739 Strange default pathnames to MS Installer tools
Submitted: 21 Jan 2007 6:49 Modified: 6 Mar 2013 9:29
Reporter: Valeriy Kravchuk Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Packaging Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.0.x OS:Windows (Windows)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[21 Jan 2007 6:49] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Description:
Files Makefile*.mak from http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/mysql-server-setup/ contain unusual hardcoded pathnames to MsiVal2 binary and components (MSIVAL=C:\Programme\MsiVal2\msival2.exe).

This prevents clean building of msi installer as described in http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/mysql-server-setup/readme.txt without hacking the code in most cases.

How to repeat:
Try to build MSI installer for 5.0.27 or 5.0.33 using scripts from http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/mysql-server-setup/

Suggested fix:
1. Use as defaults pathnames used by msival2.msi on English Windows versions ("c:\Program Files\MsiVal2\").

2. Describe installer build process in more details (I'll create a separate documentation request for this).
[6 Mar 2013 9:29] Yngve Svendsen 
Obsolete product version, and the build system on Windows has changed radically since then.