The plugins build system used different path than the mariadb_config, which resulted in plugins that couldn't be loaded, because they missed "/usr/" at the beginning of their path. RH bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1624533 Upstream Bug: https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/CONC-383 Upstream PR: https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-connector-c/pull/105 --- mariadb-connector-c-3.0.9-src/include/mariadb_version.h.in 2019-02-08 16:36:35.000000000 +0100 +++ mariadb-connector-c-3.0.9-src/include/mariadb_version.h.in_patched 2019-03-21 04:11:47.722080986 +0100 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ #define MARIADB_PACKAGE_VERSION_ID @MARIADB_PACKAGE_VERSION_ID@ #define MARIADB_SYSTEM_TYPE "@CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME@" #define MARIADB_MACHINE_TYPE "@CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR@" -#define MARIADB_PLUGINDIR "@PLUGINDIR@" +#define MARIADB_PLUGINDIR "@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@/@INSTALL_PLUGINDIR@" /* mysqld compile time options */ #ifndef MYSQL_CHARSET