Building MariaDB 5.5.27 without OQGraph: How to deselect the plugin?

Question

I'm trying to build MariaDB 5.5.27 from source. In fact, I just need the client, but I seem to have to build the complete database system anyway.

While configuring with cmake and later compiling with make, I ran into the following problem:

In file included from /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/detail/sp_counted_base_gcc_x86.hpp:27:0,
                 from /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/detail/sp_counted_base.hpp:36,
                 from /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/detail/shared_count.hpp:29,
                 from /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp:32,
                 from /usr/include/boost/shared_ptr.hpp:17,
                 from /usr/include/boost/property_map/vector_property_map.hpp:14,
                 from /usr/include/boost/property_map/property_map.hpp:844,
                 from /home/bereziak/make/mariadb-5.5.27/storage/oqgraph/graphcore.cc:36:
/usr/include/boost/detail/sp_typeinfo.hpp: In instantiation of ‘boost::detail::sp_typeinfo boost::detail::sp_typeid_<boost::checked_array_deleter<unsigned char> >::ti_’:
/usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/detail/sp_counted_impl.hpp:149:75:   instantiated from ‘void* boost::detail::sp_counted_impl_pd<P, D>::get_deleter(const boost::detail::sp_typeinfo&) [with P = unsigned char*, D = boost::checked_array_deleter<unsigned char>]’
/home/bereziak/make/mariadb-5.5.27/storage/oqgraph/graphcore.cc:1101:1:   instantiated from here
/usr/include/boost/detail/sp_typeinfo.hpp:77:48: error: conversion from ‘const char*’ to non-scalar type ‘boost::detail::sp_typeinfo’ requested
make[2]: *** [storage/oqgraph/CMakeFiles/oqgraph.dir/graphcore.cc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [storage/oqgraph/CMakeFiles/oqgraph.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Now, since I just need the client, I was thinking of deactivating the OQGraph plugin completely when configuring. But how should I do that? This is what I did:

cmake .

Inside my MariaDB directory, of course. How do I deactivate plugins/parts from it? with configure I'd simply use the option --without-plugin_oqgraph, I tried that with cmake as well, but it didn't work.

Answer 1

You could try with:

cmake . -DWITHOUT_OQGRAPH_STORAGE_ENGINE=1

Answer 2

It's not generally recommended to compile MariaDB Server yourself, there are many combinations of options and the build environment that can make things go wrong.

Indeed you can build without OQGRAPH, but even if you include it it's still a clean plugin so it won't be loaded at runtime unless you do say so. So if you just install the Boost and Boost graph dev packages on your system, the build will go fine without other tweaks.

Also do look at the build scripts the source packages provided.