Upstream chooses to install INFO_SRC and INFO_BIN into the docs dir, which breaks at least two packaging commandments, so we put them into $libdir instead. That means we have to hack the file_contents regression test to know about this. Recommendation they change is at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=61425 diff -Naur mysql-5.5.21.orig/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test mysql-5.5.21/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test --- mysql-5.5.21.orig/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test 2012-01-31 06:28:15.000000000 -0500 +++ mysql-5.5.21/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test 2012-02-27 17:18:57.716087918 -0500 @@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ } else { # RedHat: version number in directory name $dir_docs = glob "$dir_docs/MySQL-server*"; + + # All the above is entirely wacko, because these files are not docs; + # they should be kept in libdir instead. mtr does not provide a nice + # way to find libdir though, so we have to kluge it like this: + if (-d "/usr/lib64/mysql") { + $dir_docs = "/usr/lib64/mysql"; + } else { + $dir_docs = "/usr/lib/mysql"; + } } } else { # tar.gz package, Windows, or developer work (in git)