Don't guess basedir in mysql_config; we place it under _libdir because of multilib conflicts, so use rather configured @prefix@ path directly. diff -up mariadb-10.0.10/scripts/mysql_config.sh.p10 mariadb-10.0.10/scripts/mysql_config.sh --- mariadb-10.0.10/scripts/mysql_config.sh.p10 2014-03-30 19:56:39.000000000 +0200 +++ mariadb-10.0.10/scripts/mysql_config.sh 2014-04-07 18:54:19.601390650 +0200 @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ get_full_path () me=`get_full_path $0` -basedir=`echo $me | sed -e 's;/bin/mysql_config;;'` +basedir='@prefix@' ldata='@localstatedir@' execdir='@libexecdir@'