Difference In Layouts

Within its installation directory, the layout of a source installation differs from that of a binary installation in the following ways:
- The mysqld server is installed in the libexec directory rather than in the bin directory.
- The data directory is var rather than data.
- mysql_install_db is installed in the bin directory rather than in the scripts directory.
- The header file and library directories are include/mysql and lib/mysql rather than include and lib.

It is possible to create a binary installation from a compiled source distribution by executing the scripts/make_binary_distribution script from the top directory of the source distribution.