With this change, there will be new files "INFO_SRC"
and "INFO_BIN", which describe the source and the
binaries.
They will be contained in all packages:
- in "tar.gz" and derived packages, in "docs/",
- in RPMs, in "/usr/share/doc/packages/MySQL-server".
"INFO_SRC" is also part of a source tarball.
It gives the version as exact as possible, preferably
by calling "bzr version-info" on the source tree.
If that is not possible, it just contains the three
level version number.
"INFO_BIN" contains some info when and where the
binaries were built, the options given to the compiler,
and the flags controlling the included features.
The tests (test "mysql" in the main suite) are extended
to verify the existence of both "INFO_SRC" and "INFO_BIN",
as well as some of the expected contents.
The autotools-based build system has been superseded and
is being removed in order to ease the maintenance burden on
developers tweaking and maintaining the build system.
In order to support tools that need to extract the server
version, a new file that (only) contains the server version,
called VERSION, is introduced. The file contents are human
and machine-readable. The format is:
MYSQL_VERSION_MAJOR=5
MYSQL_VERSION_MINOR=5
MYSQL_VERSION_PATCH=8
MYSQL_VERSION_EXTRA=-rc
The CMake based version extraction in cmake/mysql_version.cmake
is changed to extract the version from this file. The configure
to CMake wrapper is retained for backwards compatibility and to
support the BUILD/ scripts. Also, a new a makefile target
show-dist-name that prints the server version is introduced.
