Compiling from tarball source fails on Debian 13: `Linking CXX static library libicui18n.a`

MySQL & MariaDB
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I’m attempting to compile Percona MySQL 8.0 and / or 8.4 from tarball source on Debian 13 aarch64. The configure process completes without any obvious issues, but the compile process errors out with a make error:

[  7%] Building CXX object extra/icu/CMakeFiles/icui18n.dir/icu-release-77-1/source/i18n/utf8collationiterator.cpp.o
[  7%] Building CXX object extra/icu/CMakeFiles/icui18n.dir/icu-release-77-1/source/i18n/utmscale.cpp.o
[  7%] Building CXX object extra/icu/CMakeFiles/icui18n.dir/icu-release-77-1/source/i18n/utrans.cpp.o
[  8%] Building CXX object extra/icu/CMakeFiles/icui18n.dir/icu-release-77-1/source/i18n/vtzone.cpp.o
[  8%] Building CXX object extra/icu/CMakeFiles/icui18n.dir/icu-release-77-1/source/i18n/vzone.cpp.o
[  8%] Building CXX object extra/icu/CMakeFiles/icui18n.dir/icu-release-77-1/source/i18n/zonemeta.cpp.o
[  8%] Building CXX object extra/icu/CMakeFiles/icui18n.dir/icu-release-77-1/source/i18n/zrule.cpp.o
[  8%] Building CXX object extra/icu/CMakeFiles/icui18n.dir/icu-release-77-1/source/i18n/ztrans.cpp.o
[  8%] Linking CXX static library libicui18n.a
[  8%] Built target icui18n
make: *** [Makefile:166: all] Error 2

The libicui18n.a library is present:

$ sudo locate libicui18n.a
/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.a

I’d appreciate any pointers as to where to investigate next. Thank you.

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Hi @petecooper ,

Percona Server 8.4 should build fine on Debian 13 without any issues.
The make: *** [Makefile:166: all] Error 2 message is just a generic failure from make—it doesn’t indicate the actual cause. The real error should appear a few lines above in the build logs, where the compiler or linker reports what went wrong. Could you share that part of the log so we can pinpoint the issue? Thank you.

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Such issue might appear if not all submodules were loaded to the source code directory.