MySQL Bugs: #67177: MySQL 5.1 is incompatibile with automake 1.12

Bug #67177	MySQL 5.1 is incompatibile with automake 1.12
Submitted:	10 Oct 2012 10:39	Modified:	13 Mar 2013 19:23
Reporter:	Alexey Kopytov	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.1	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The .yy.cc Makefile rule generated by Automake 1.12 produces sql_yacc.hh instead of sql_yacc.h. Which breaks compilation, because sql/Makefile.am assumes the output name to be sql_yacc.h:

/bin/sh ../ylwrap sql_yacc.yy y.tab.c sql_yacc.cc y.tab.h `echo sql_yacc.cc | sed -e s/cc$/hh/ -e s/cpp$/hpp/ -e s/cxx$/hxx/ -e s/c++$/h++/ -e s/c$/h/` y.output sql_yacc.output -- bison -y -p MYSQL -d --verbose 
updating sql_yacc.output
updating sql_yacc.hh
make: *** No rule to make target `sql_yacc.h', needed by `all'.  Stop. 

How to repeat:
Try building MySQL 5.1 with Automake 1.12.

Thank you for the report.

I can not repeat described behavior. Please indicate how you build MySQL and which exact 5.1 version you use.

MySQL 5.1 from the current lp:mysql-server/5.1.

$ bzr revision-info 
3809 joerg.bruehe@oracle.com-20120911104732-gjcmqg1t2yext74e\\

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.12.4

$ BUILD/compile-pentium-debug-max-no-ndb # (I don't think it matters, any way to build the server would fail)
...
Making all in sql
make[1]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.
/bin/sh ../ylwrap sql_yacc.yy y.tab.c sql_yacc.cc y.tab.h `echo sql_yacc.cc | sed -e s/cc$/hh/ -e s/cpp$/hpp/ -e s/cxx$/hxx/ -e s/c++$/h++/ -e s/c$/h/` y.output sql_yacc.output -- bison -y -p MYSQL -d --verbose 
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `sql_yacc.h', needed by `all'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
updating sql_yacc.output
updating sql_yacc.hh
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

That's on OSX, but again, I think it is irrelevant, as reportedly it fails in the same way on Arch Linux which has already upgraded to Automake 1.12.

Thank you for the feedback.

Build script matters. Verified as described on Oracle Linux 6

There appears to be a fixing commit in 5.1, revno 3909, thus this might have been fixed in 5.1.68.

The same commit suggests the internal bug id #15967374

Noted in 5.1.69 changelog.

Adjusted MySQL configuration to account for change in Automake 1.12
that produced sql_yacc.hh rather than sql_yacc.h as expected by
sql/Makefile.am.

The fix commit revision has moved from 3909:

5.1$ bzr log -r 3935 -n0
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 3935 [merge]
author: hery.ramilison@oracle.com
committer: Hery Ramilison <hery.ramilison@oracle.com>
branch nick: mysql-5.1
timestamp: Tue 2013-02-05 20:47:45 +0100
message:
  Merge from mysql-5.1.68-release
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    revno: 3908.1.1
    tags: mysql-5.1.68
    committer: Hery Ramilison <hery.ramilison@oracle.com>
    branch nick: mysql-5.1.68-release
    timestamp: Tue 2013-01-08 13:29:11 +0100
    message:
      Applying patch for Bug#67177 Bug#15967374 from Kent