On 03/18/2009 07:30 AM, Antony Dovgal wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> At the moment MySQL plugin process is overly complicated - in order to build a plugin
> one must perform the following actions:
> 1) fetch MySQL sources
> 2) run `./configure`
> 3) run `make`, as my_config.h is created by make, not ./configure.
>
> Patch #1 (mysql_my_config.h.diff) addresses this problem by eliminating step #3.
>
> Patch #2 (mysql_defines.h) fixes another problem: if MySQL server has been built with
> --with-debug option,
> it uses SAFE_MUTEX (and SAFEMALLOC for "full" debug), but these defines are nowhere
> to be found,
> hence one needs to add them manually in order to build a working plugin (there are no
> compile errors,
> just random runtime problems because of different structure size).
> The patch adds these defines to config.h (and my_config.h).
>
> Please review attached patches.
> You can also find them here:
> http://dev.daylessday.org/diff/mysql_my_config.h.diff
> http://dev.daylessday.org/diff/mysql_defines.diff
Both are very sensible. Thank you.
Since these are so small, you don't (AFAIK, IANAL) need to sign our
contributor agreement, but if you might contribute in the future you
might like to do so now.
http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributor_agreement.jsp
Thank you, Antony.
- chad
