OQGRAPH is silently not compiled if boost is missing

Hi, Philip!

I suppose you want

  ./configure --with-plugin-oqgraph

to fail if oqgraph is not built, but plain

  ./configure

should not fail.

On Sep 11, Philip Stoev wrote:
>
> Public bug reported:
>
> OQGRAPH is silently not compiled if boost is missing -- configure
> mentions the fact in passing and proceeds to compile a binary. Instead,
> ./configure should have failed.
>
> Silent non-compilation of engines and features has been a historic
> problem for MySQL -- the MTR test suite does not detect such omissions
> and simply skips the relevant tests, which requires extra scripts and
> work at build time to verify that the binary contains all desired
> features. Explicit ./configure failures are much easier to detect.
>
> ** Affects: maria
> Importance: Undecided
> Assignee: Sergei (sergii)
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: oqgraph
>
> ** Changed in: maria
> Milestone: None => 5.2
>
> ** Changed in: maria
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Sergei (sergii)
>
> --
> OQGRAPH is silently not compiled if boost is missing
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/635633
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Maria-
> captains, which is the registrant for Maria.
>
> Status in Maria: New
>
> Bug description:
> OQGRAPH is silently not compiled if boost is missing -- configure mentions the fact in passing and proceeds to compile a binary. Instead, ./configure should have failed.
>
> Silent non-compilation of engines and features has been a historic problem for MySQL -- the MTR test suite does not detect such omissions and simply skips the relevant tests, which requires extra scripts and work at build time to verify that the binary contains all desired features. Explicit ./configure failures are much easier to detect.
>
>
>
Regards,
Sergei

Yes exactly.