Upstream chooses to install INFO_SRC and INFO_BIN into the docs dir, which breaks at least two packaging commandments, so we put them into $libdir instead. That means we have to hack the file_contents regression test to know about this. Recommendation they change is at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=61425 diff -up mysql-5.6.15/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test.p19 mysql-5.6.15/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test --- mysql-5.6.15/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test.p19 2013-12-09 18:44:48.425892516 +0100 +++ mysql-5.6.15/mysql-test/t/file_contents.test 2013-12-09 18:48:02.247150032 +0100 @@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ if ($dir_bin =~ m|/usr/|) { # If not it might be ULN so try that $dir_docs = glob "$dir_bin/share/doc/mysql-community-server*"; } + # All the above is entirely wacko, because these files are not docs; + # they should be kept in libdir instead. mtr does not provide a nice + # way to find libdir though, so we have to kluge it like this: + if (-d "/usr/lib64/mysql") { + $dir_docs = "/usr/lib64/mysql"; + } else { + $dir_docs = "/usr/lib/mysql"; + } } } else { # tar.gz package, Windows, or developer work (in BZR)