Upstream chooses to install INFO_SRC and INFO_BIN into the docs dir, which breaks at least two packaging commandments, so we put them into $libdir instead. That means we have to hack the file_contents regression test to know about this. Recommendation they change is at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=61425 diff -rup mariadb-10.1.8.orig/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test mariadb-10.1.8/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test --- mariadb-10.1.8.orig/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test 2015-10-15 17:43:44.000000000 +0200 +++ mariadb-10.1.8/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test 2015-10-19 13:54:53.505550439 +0200 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ --perl print "\nChecking 'INFO_SRC' and 'INFO_BIN'\n"; $dir_bin = $ENV{'MYSQL_BINDIR'}; -if ($dir_bin eq '/usr/') { +if ($dir_bin =~ '.*/usr/$') { # RPM package $dir_docs = $dir_bin; $dir_docs =~ s|/lib|/share/doc|; @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ if ($dir_bin eq '/usr/') { # RedHat: version number in directory name $dir_docs = glob "$dir_docs/MariaDB-server*"; } -} elsif ($dir_bin eq '/usr') { +} elsif ($dir_bin =~ '.*/usr$') { # RPM build during development $dir_docs = "$dir_bin/share/doc"; if(-d "$dir_docs/packages") { @@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ if ($dir_bin eq '/usr/') { # RedHat/Debian: version number in directory name $dir_docs = glob "$dir_docs/mariadb-server-*"; $dir_docs = glob "$dir_docs/MariaDB-server*" unless -d $dir_docs; + + # All the above is entirely wacko, because these files are not docs; + # they should be kept in libdir instead. mtr does not provide a nice + # way to find libdir though, so we have to kluge it like this: + if (-d "$dir_bin/lib64/mysql") { + $dir_docs = "$dir_bin/lib64/mysql"; + } else { + $dir_docs = "$dir_bin/lib/mysql"; + } } # Slackware $dir_docs = glob "$dir_bin/doc/mariadb-[0-9]*" unless -d $dir_docs;