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comp_err - compile MySQL error message file

COMP_ERR(1) MySQL Database System COMP_ERR(1)

comp_err - compile MySQL error message file

comp_err [options]

comp_err creates the errmsg.sys file that is used by mysqld to determine the error messages to display for different error codes. comp_err normally is run automatically when MySQL is built. It compiles the errmsg.sys file from text-format error information in MySQL source distributions:

•As of MySQL 8.0.19, the error information comes from the messages_to_error_log.txt and messages_to_clients.txt files in the share directory.

For more information about defining error messages, see the comments within those files, along with the errmsg_readme.txt file.

•Prior to MySQL 8.0.19, the error information comes from the errmsg-utf8.txt file in the sql/share directory.

comp_err also generates the mysqld_error.h, mysqld_ername.h, and mysqld_errmsg.h header files.

Invoke comp_err like this:

comp_err [options]

comp_err supports the following options.

•--help, -? Display a help message and exit.

•--charset=dir_name, -C dir_name The character set directory. The default is ../sql/share/charsets.

•--debug=debug_options, -# debug_options Write a debugging log. A typical debug_options string is d:t:O,file_name. The default is d:t:O,/tmp/comp_err.trace.

•--debug-info, -T Print some debugging information when the program exits.

•--errmsg-file=file_name, -H file_name The name of the error message file. The default is mysqld_errmsg.h. This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.

•--header-file=file_name, -H file_name The name of the error header file. The default is mysqld_error.h.

•--in-file=file_name, -F file_name The name of the input file. The default is ../share/errmsg-utf8.txt.

This option was removed in MySQL 8.0.19 and replaced by the --in-file-errlog and --in-file-toclient options.

•--in-file-errlog=file_name, -e file_name The name of the input file that defines error messages intended to be written to the error log. The default is ../share/messages_to_error_log.txt.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.19.

•--in-file-toclient=file_name, -c file_name The name of the input file that defines error messages intended to be written to clients. The default is ../share/messages_to_clients.txt.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.19.

•--name-file=file_name, -N file_name The name of the error name file. The default is mysqld_ername.h.

•--out-dir=dir_name, -D dir_name The name of the output base directory. The default is ../sql/share/.

•--out-file=file_name, -O file_name The name of the output file. The default is errmsg.sys.

•--version, -V Display version information and exit.

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