Building MySQL from Bazaar

I wanted to try using MySQL source from its new VCS, Bazaar, and I saw Daniel Fischer’s extremely helpful post “Getting started with Bazaar for MySQL code“. Thanks Daniel!

Downloading using Bazaar is indeed slow, as Daniel warns. I am constrained to 1MBps ADSL, and the intial download took quite a bit of time. I think over an hour. But subsequent merges and other operations are quicker.

Building the source seems conventional, but I have run into Bug #37075 running tests. There seems to be a regression that is exhibited by th LIMIT tests with prepared statements. Here are the steps to reproduce:

$ configure --with-innodb --with-ssl
$ make
$ cd mysql-test
$ perl mysql-test-run limit

Here’s the output:

TEST                           RESULT         TIME (ms)
-------------------------------------------------------

main.limit                     [ fail ]

--- /Users/bill/workspace/bzr/mysql-server/mysql-test/r/limit.result 2008-06-26
01:04:04.000000000 +0300
+++ /Users/bill/workspace/bzr/mysql-server/mysql-test/r/limit.reject 2008-06-26
23:47:59.000000000 +0300
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@
set @a=14632475938453979136;
execute s using @a, @a;
1
+1
set @a=-14632475938453979136;
execute s using @a, @a;
ERROR HY000: Incorrect arguments to EXECUTE

mysqltest: Result length mismatch

Warnings from just before the error:
Error 1292 Truncated incorrect DECIMAL value: ''

Aborting: main.limit failed in default mode.
To continue, re-run with '--force'.

This affects MySQL 5.1.27 (revno 2662) and MySQL 6.0.6 (revno 2671). But the tests pass in MySQL 5.0.66.