Comment 3 for bug 786236

Still fails for me, but in a different way now. I know it's because I compiled without thread pool support. But I think we still want the test to pass in this case.

main.mysqld--help-notwin [ fail ]
        Test ended at 2011-05-31 08:45:58

CURRENT_TEST: main.mysqld--help-notwin
--- /Users/kaa/src/launchpad/mysql-55-eb/mysql-test/r/mysqld--help-notwin.result 2011-05-28 17:58:39.000000000 +0300
+++ /Users/kaa/src/launchpad/mysql-55-eb/mysql-test/r/mysqld--help-notwin.reject 2011-05-31 07:45:58.000000000 +0300
@@ -707,9 +707,6 @@
  Define threads usage for handling queries, one of
  one-thread-per-connection, no-threads,
  loaded-dynamically, pool-of-threads
- --thread-pool-size=#
- How many threads we should create to handle query
- requests in case of 'thread_handling=pool-of-threads'.
  --thread-stack=# The stack size for each thread
  --time-format=name The TIME format (ignored)
  --timed-mutexes Specify whether to time mutexes (only InnoDB mutexes are
@@ -956,7 +953,6 @@
 tc-heuristic-recover COMMIT
 thread-cache-size 0
 thread-handling one-thread-per-connection
-thread-pool-size 20
 thread-stack 262144
 time-format %H:%i:%s
 timed-mutexes FALSE

I suggest we add thread-pool-size to the list of ignored variables (@skipvars in include/mysqld--help.inc) and update the .result file accordingly. That is:

=== modified file 'mysql-test/include/mysqld--help.inc'
--- mysql-test/include/mysqld--help.inc 2010-09-30 13:52:39 +0000
+++ mysql-test/include/mysqld--help.inc 2011-05-31 04:48:12 +0000
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ perl;
   # their paths may vary:
   @skipvars=qw/basedir open-files-limit general-log-file log plugin-dir
                log-slow-queries pid-file slow-query-log-file
- datadir slave-load-tmpdir tmpdir socket/;
+ datadir slave-load-tmpdir tmpdir socket
+ thread-pool-size/;

   # Plugins which may or may not be there:
   @plugins=qw/innodb ndb archive blackhole federated partition ndbcluster debug temp-pool ssl des-key-file

=== modified file 'mysql-test/r/mysqld--help-notwin.result'
--- mysql-test/r/mysqld--help-notwin.result 2011-05-27 10:29:52 +0000
+++ mysql-test/r/mysqld--help-notwin.result 2011-05-31 04:48:59 +0000
@@ -707,9 +707,6 @@
  Define threads usage for handling queries, one of
  one-thread-per-connection, no-threads,
  loaded-dynamically, pool-of-threads
- --thread-pool-size=#
- How many threads we should create to handle query
- requests in case of 'thread_handling=pool-of-threads'.
  --thread-stack=# The stack size for each thread
  --time-format=name The TIME format (ignored)
  --timed-mutexes Specify whether to time mutexes (only InnoDB mutexes are
@@ -956,7 +953,6 @@ table-open-cache 400
 tc-heuristic-recover COMMIT
 thread-cache-size 0
 thread-handling one-thread-per-connection
-thread-pool-size 20
 thread-stack 262144
 time-format %H:%i:%s
 timed-mutexes FALSE