Bug #4986 MySQL 5.0.2's mysql_install_db script doesn't get --prefix knowledge

• Submitted: 11 Aug 2004 0:42
• Modified: 16 Sep 2004 17:13
• Reporter: Jeremy Zawodny
• Status: No Feedback
• Category: MySQL Server: Installing
• Severity: S2 (Serious)
• Version: 5.0.2
• OS: Any Unix
• Assigned to: Assigned Account
• CPU Architecture: Any

[11 Aug 2004 0:42] Jeremy Zawodny

Description:
When I build and install 5.0.2 from bitkeeper like this:

./configure --prefix=/home/mysql
make
make install

And then try to init the database by doing this:

cd /home/mysql
./bin/mysql_install_db

I get this error:

Could not find help file 'fill_help_tables.sql' in /usr/local/share/mysql or inside /usr/local.

That file clearly resides in /home/mysql/share/mysql since I specified a /home/mysql prefix at build time.

How to repeat:
./configure --prefix=/home/mysql
make
make install

cd /home/mysql
./bin/mysql_install_db

Suggested fix:
Make mysql_install_db aware of the any --prefix the user specified instead of assuming only the default values.

[12 Aug 2004 20:46] Hartmut Holzgraefe

I tried clean builds of both 5.0.1 and latest bitkeeper tree
and both wirk fine. I also looked into the mysql_install_db.sh
but couldn't find anything hardcoded or wrongly set in it.

I can only assume that your installation was either confused 
by a previous one or by a previous configure run?

[14 Feb 2005 22:54] Bugs System

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[17 Jan 2007 15:18] Frederic linot

I confirm the problem is due to a confused installation.

To solve the problem, do a make clean :

make clean
./configure
make
make install