Building MariaDB on CentOS
In the event that you are using the Linux-based operating system CentOS or any of its derivatives, you can optionally compile MariaDB from source code. This is useful in cases where you want use a more advanced release than the one that's available in the official repositories, or when you want to enable certain feature that are not otherwise accessible.
Installing Build Dependencies for MariaDB 5.5
Before you start building MariaDB, you first need to install the build dependencies required to run the compile. CentOS provides a tool for installing build dependencies. The yum-builddep utility reads a package and generates a list of the packages required to build from source, then calls YUM to install them for you. In the event that this utility is not available on your system, you can install it through the yum-utils package. Once you have it, install the MariaDB build dependencies.
Running the above command installs many of the build dependencies, but it doesn't install all of them. It will only install dependencies for MariaDB 5.5, which is not enough if you want to compile a newer MariaDB version!
Installing Build Dependencies for newer MariaDB versions
The following commands installs all packages needed to get and compile MariaDB 10.11:
You can replace openssl with gnutls above, depending on the TLS implementation you want to use.
If you plan to use the BUILD scripts to make it easier to build different configurations of MariaDB, then you should also install ccache to speed up your compilations:
If you want to test the MariaDB installation, with the include mysql-test-run (mtr) system, you also need to install and configure cpan:
For more information on dependencies, see Linux Build Environment.
Building MariaDB
Once you have the base dependencies installed, you can retrieve the source code and start building MariaDB. The source code is available on GitHub. Use the --branch option to specify the particular version of MariaDB you want to build.
With the source repository cloned onto your system, you can start building MariaDB. Run CMake to ready MariaDB for the build,
Once CMake readies the relevant Makefile for your system, use Make to build MariaDB.
This generates an RPM file, which you can then install on your system or copy over to install on other CentOS hosts. The umask is needed because of a bug in cmake / cmake scripts.
Alternative, use one of the build scripts in the BUILD directory that allows you to compile different versions of MariaDB (debug, optimized, profiling etc).
A good option for developers is:
Creating MariaDB-compat package
MariaDB-compat package contains libraries from older MariaDB releases. They cannot be built from the current source tree, so cpack creates them by repackaging old MariaDB-shared packages. If you want to have -compat package created, you need to download MariaDB-shared-5.3 and MariaDB-shared-10.1 rpm packages for your architecture (any minor version will do) and put them one level above the source tree you're building. CMake will pick them up and create a MariaDB-compat package. CMake reports it as
Additional Dependencies
In the event that you miss a package while installing build dependencies, CMake may continue to fail after you install the necessary packages. If this happens to you, delete the CMake cache then run the above the command again:
When CMake runs through the tests again, it should now find the packages it needs, instead of the cache telling it they're unavailable.
More about CMake and CPackRPM
See also building RPM packages from source
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