xtrabackup 2.3 can not be built from GitHub sources

[Valerii Kravchuk]

I tried to follow the manual (https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.3/installation/compiling_xtrabackup.html) to build recent xtrabackup 2.3.x from GitHub sources:

[openxs@chief percona-xtrabackup]$ fc -l
...
1017 cd git
1018 rm -rf percona-xtrabackup/
1019 df -H
1020 git clone https://github.com/percona/percona-xtrabackup.git
1021 cd percona-xtrabackup/
1022 git branches -r
1023 git branch -r
1024 git branch
1025 git checkout 2.3
1026 git branch
1027 cmake -DBUILD_CONFIG=xtrabackup_release -DWITH_MAN_PAGES=OFF
1028 make
[openxs@chief percona-xtrabackup]$

cmake ended up successfully, but unfortunately make failed like this:

[ 77%] Building C object storage/innobase/xtrabackup/src/CMakeFiles/xtrabackup.dir/xbstream_write.c.o
[ 77%] Building CXX object storage/innobase/xtrabackup/src/CMakeFiles/xtrabackup.dir/backup_mysql.cc.o
[ 77%] Building CXX object storage/innobase/xtrabackup/src/CMakeFiles/xtrabackup.dir/backup_copy.cc.o
/home/openxs/git/percona-xtrabackup/storage/innobase/xtrabackup/src/backup_copy.cc:51:30: fatal error: version_check_pl.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [storage/innobase/xtrabackup/src/CMakeFiles/xtrabackup.dir/backup_copy.cc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [storage/innobase/xtrabackup/src/CMakeFiles/xtrabackup.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

and I can not find the missing version_check_pl.h anywhere in the system:

[openxs@chief percona-xtrabackup]$ find / -name version_check_pl.h 2>/dev/null
[openxs@chief percona-xtrabackup]$ echo $?
1
[openxs@chief percona-xtrabackup]$

Surely I can hack the code to remove references to this file and simplify/remove Perl version check (why is it needed at all I wonder?), but it would be niceto provide sources at GitHub that can be built based on the manualk without any modifications.

[Sergei Glushchenko (sergei.glushchenko)]

Try to install vim, then rm -rf percona-xtrabackup and repeat the whole procedure. We need xxd to generate version_check.pl which comes with vim package.
If it works, we will update docs.

[Valerii Kravchuk (valerii-kravchuk)]

I had vim-minimal:

[openxs@chief percona-xtrabackup]$ rpm -qa | grep vim
vim-minimal-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64

Then I followed your instructions:

[openxs@chief percona-xtrabackup]$ su
Password:
[root@chief percona-xtrabackup]# yum install vim
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vim-enhanced.x86_64 2:7.3.315-1.fc14 set to be installed
--> Processing Dependency: vim-common = 2:7.3.315-1.fc14 for package: 2:vim-enhanced-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libruby.so.1.8()(64bit) for package: 2:vim-enhanced-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ruby-libs.x86_64 0:1.8.7.352-1.fc14 set to be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libreadline.so.5()(64bit) for package: ruby-libs-1.8.7.352-1.fc14.x86_64
---> Package vim-common.x86_64 2:7.3.315-1.fc14 set to be installed
--> Processing Dependency: vim-filesystem for package: 2:vim-common-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package compat-readline5.x86_64 0:5.2-17.fc12 set to be installed
---> Package vim-filesystem.x86_64 2:7.3.315-1.fc14 set to be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 vim-enhanced x86_64 2:7.3.315-1.fc14 updates 959 k
Installing for dependencies:
 compat-readline5 x86_64 5.2-17.fc12 fedora 124 k
 ruby-libs x86_64 1.8.7.352-1.fc14 updates 1.9 M
 vim-common x86_64 2:7.3.315-1.fc14 updates 6.2 M
 vim-filesystem x86_64 2:7.3.315-1.fc14 updates 14 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 5 Package(s)

Total download size: 9.1 M
Installed size: 27 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 9.1 M
(1/5): compat-readline5-5.2-17.fc12.x86_64.rpm | 124 kB 00:00
(2/5): ruby-libs-1.8.7.352-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm | 1.9 MB 00:00
(3/5): vim-common-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm | 6.2 MB 00:02
(4/5): vim-enhanced-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm | 959 kB 00:02
(5/5): vim-filesystem-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm | 14 kB 00:00
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 1.5 MB/s | 9.1 MB 00:05
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : compat-readline5-5.2-17.fc12.x86_64 1/5
  Installing : ruby-libs-1.8.7.352-1.fc14.x86_64 2/5
  Installing : 2:vim-filesystem-7.3.315-1.fc14.x86_64 3/5
  Installing : 2:vim-common-7.3.315...

[Sergei Glushchenko (sergei.glushchenko)]

https://github.com/percona/percona-xtrabackup/pull/136

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-737