Comments on: Software is Hard Sometimes … http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/software-is-hard-sometimes/ "The word" about InnoDB Products and Technology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:26:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stewart Smith http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/software-is-hard-sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Stewart Smith Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:00:25 +0000 http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/?p=350#comment-49 @Vasil Dimov, sounds reasonable @Vasil Dimov, sounds reasonable

]]> By: sime http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/software-is-hard-sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-46 sime Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:14:14 +0000 http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/?p=350#comment-46 Great post. Good to know that shared code is being reviewed and incorporated. I thought part of the problem of the Google patches that they were licensed under the GPL. Luckily for me I know that upstream the code has been incorporated and don't have to worry about custom patches. Great post. Good to know that shared code is being reviewed and incorporated.

I thought part of the problem of the Google patches that they were licensed under the GPL.

Luckily for me I know that upstream the code has been incorporated and don’t have to worry about custom patches.

]]> By: Vasil Dimov http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/software-is-hard-sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Vasil Dimov Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:52:51 +0000 http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/?p=350#comment-45 Stewart, yes, we did put the check in ./storage/innobase/plug.in, but to use that, one have to recreate ./configure and we are trying to avoid asking the users to do that. The procedure for compiling the InnoDB Plugin is: 1. Fetch and unpack the MySQL source 2. Replace ./storage/innobase with the InnoDB Plugin 3. Compile as usual: ./configure && make We do not want to insert an additional step between 2. and 3. "run ./BUILD/autorun.sh, you must have installed autoconf/automake for this" So we have added the "hack" in Makefile.in to follow the common procedure: fetch, extract, ./configure, make and also added the "real" thing in plug.in in case someone recreates ./configure after all. Stewart,

yes, we did put the check in ./storage/innobase/plug.in, but to use that, one have to recreate ./configure and we are trying to avoid asking the users to do that.

The procedure for compiling the InnoDB Plugin is:

1. Fetch and unpack the MySQL source
2. Replace ./storage/innobase with the InnoDB Plugin
3. Compile as usual: ./configure && make

We do not want to insert an additional step between 2. and 3. “run ./BUILD/autorun.sh, you must have installed autoconf/automake for this”

So we have added the “hack” in Makefile.in to follow the common procedure: fetch, extract, ./configure, make and also added the “real” thing in plug.in in case someone recreates ./configure after all.

]]> By: Stewart Smith http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/software-is-hard-sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Stewart Smith Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:11:15 +0000 http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/?p=350#comment-44 Could you not add the check to plug.in for innodb? that should make it run as part of the configure script - we do that a lot now in Drizzle (e.g. the check for MD5 being in crypto lib is just in the plug.in for the md5 plugin). Could you not add the check to plug.in for innodb? that should make it run as part of the configure script – we do that a lot now in Drizzle (e.g. the check for MD5 being in crypto lib is just in the plug.in for the md5 plugin).

]]> By: Ken Jacobs http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/software-is-hard-sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Ken Jacobs Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:38:14 +0000 http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/?p=350#comment-42 Fixed now ... thanks for pointing it out. (The problem was the famous cut-and-paste from MS-Word, which uses "smart-quotes". Not so smart.) Fixed now … thanks for pointing it out.

(The problem was the famous cut-and-paste from MS-Word, which uses “smart-quotes”. Not so smart.)

]]> By: Walter Cruz http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/software-is-hard-sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Walter Cruz Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:09:43 +0000 http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/?p=350#comment-41 The links on post are broken ;) The links on post are broken ;)

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