Macro: ac_prog_mysqladmin

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Synopsis

  `AC_PROG_MYSQLADMIN`

Version

  1.2 (2002/12/12) Installed_Packages @ ac-archive-0.5.39

Author

  Gleen Salmon <gleensalmon@yahoo.com>

Description

  Check for the program 'mysqladmin' let script continue if exists & works pops up error message if not.

  Testing of functionality is by invoking it with root password 'rootpass' and a 'flush-privileges' command.

  Besides checking mysql, this macro also set these environment variables upon completion:

  `MYSQLADMIN = which mysqladmin`
  `MYSQL_DATADIR = directory containing mysql database`

M4 Source Code

      AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_MYSQLADMIN],[
      AC_REQUIRE([AC_EXEEXT])dnl
      AC_PATH_PROG(MYSQLADMIN, mysqladmin$EXEEXT, nocommand)
      if test "$MYSQLADMIN" = nocommand; then
      	AC_MSG_ERROR([mysqladmin not found in $PATH])
      fi
      AC_MSG_CHECKING([if mysqladmin works])
      if $MYSQLADMIN -u root -prootpass flush-privileges; then
      	AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
      else
      	AC_MSG_NOTICE([Before installation, set MySQL root password to rootpass; restore your root password afterwards.])
      	AC_MSG_ERROR([mysqladmin cannot run with root password = rootpass])
      fi
      DATADIR_PATTERN='^|[[[:blank:]]]*datadir[[[:blank:]]]*|[[[:blank:]]]*\([[^[:blank:]]][[^[:blank:]]]*\)[[[:blank:]]]*|'
      MYSQL_DATADIR=`$MYSQLADMIN -u root -prootpass variables 2> /dev/null | grep $DATADIR_PATTERN | sed "s/$DATADIR_PATTERN/\1/"`;dnl
      ])