Package: libmariadb-dev Version: 1:3.0.6-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
While writing a program to access a MariaDB database, I ran into an issue when trying to connect to the server. When the program tries to connect, it returns the following error message: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Some searching revealed that the running instance of mysql has a socket at /var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock. The program could not find that socket, however, since by default the shared library tries to connect at '/tmp/mysql.sock'. There are two possible workarounds for this: 1) Create a symlink (/tmp/mysql.sock -> /var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock) 2) Use mysql_optionsv(mysql, MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_GROUP, "client") to read the configuration from the client section of the files at /etc/mysql (specifically, /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-client.cnf) I am not sure if this is the way this is supposed to work, and whoever tries to write code to access the server should be using mysql_optionsv, but I think the library should use /var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock as the default value for the socket, since this _is_ the default location for the server package. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libmariadb-dev depends on: ii libc6 2.27-6 ii libmariadb3 1:3.0.6-1 libmariadb-dev recommends no packages. libmariadb-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
