Bug #85287 Compile from source, no doc for requiring ncurses library
Submitted: 3 Mar 2017 8:13 Modified: 16 Nov 2017 7:42
Reporter: 李 文杰 Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:8.0.0 OS:Linux
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[3 Mar 2017 8:13] 李 文杰
Description:
I was compiling MySQL server 8.0.0 from source, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
There is no doc for that, the compilation requires ncurses library ("yum install ncurses-devel", "apt-get install libncurses5-dev").

How to repeat:
On machine without the ncurses library, follow the instruction to compile from source.
On machine already having the ncurses library, please remove it first.

Suggested fix:
Just to specify the requirement in the doc.
[3 Mar 2017 10:46] MySQL Verification Team
Hello!

Thank you for the report and feedback!

Thanks,
Umesh
[16 Oct 2017 21:23] Daniel So
Posted by developer:
 
The requirement has been added to https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/source-installation.html, for all versions of MySQL.

The change will visible in the next builds of the manuals.