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Asked: 2026-06-02T17:47:02+00:00

I installed mysql using apt-get on my local machine recently. It proceeded with the

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I installed mysql using apt-get on my local machine recently.
It proceeded with the default my.cnf.
I would like to see what are the compile time configurations of this binary.

Can some one help me how can i do this?

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    install mysql-server source.

    apt-get source mysql-server # root access not needed

    This will create some archive files in the current directory. In my debian lenny it creates the following directories. In your Ubuntu it’ll be almost same.

     mysql-dfsg-5.0-5.0.51a
 mysql-dfsg-5.0_5.0.51a-24+lenny5.diff.gz
 mysql-dfsg-5.0_5.0.51a-24+lenny5.dsc
 mysql-dfsg-5.0_5.0.51a.orig.tar.gz

    Now inspect the debian/rules file in extracted source. I did it by this,

      less mysql-dfsg-5.0-5.0.51a/debian/rules

    You can use other editor (nano, vi, gedit all are okay). Arround line 68 you’ll see the configuration option

    To know more about how to recompile a debian source package, read

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