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 $libdir instead. That means we have to hack the file_contents regression test to know about this. Recommendation they change is at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=61425 diff -up mariadb-5.5.34/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test.p10 mariadb-5.5.34/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test --- mariadb-5.5.34/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test.p10 2013-11-20 13:28:56.000000000 +0100 +++ mariadb-5.5.34/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test 2013-11-22 08:50:30.244702013 +0100 @@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ if ($dir_bin eq '/usr/') { # RedHat/Debian: version number in directory name $dir_docs = glob "$dir_docs/mariadb-server-*"; $dir_docs = glob "$dir_docs/MySQL-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 "/usr/lib64/mysql") { + $dir_docs = "/usr/lib64/mysql"; + } else { + $dir_docs = "/usr/lib/mysql"; + } } # Slackware $dir_docs = glob "$dir_bin/doc/mariadb-[0-9]*" unless -d $dir_docs;