Bug#26171638 MYSQL 5.5.57 - MSI COMMUNITY PACKAGES NOT GETTING INSTALLED

Corrected the revert.

(cherry picked from commit f637e524bf9b692c3ed46d856e2beac193b42a3e)

packaging/WiX/create_msi.cmake.in

@@ -218,6 +218,37 @@ MACRO(GENERATE_GUID VarName)
  OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
 ENDMACRO()
 
+# Make sure that WIX identifier created from a path matches all the rules:
+# - it is shorter than 72 characters
+# - doesn't contain reserver characters ('+', '-' and '/')
+# ID_SET contains a global list of all identifiers which are too long.
+# Every time we use an identifier which is too long we use its index in
+# ID_SET to shorten the name.
+SET_PROPERTY(GLOBAL PROPERTY ID_SET)
+MACRO(MAKE_WIX_IDENTIFIER str varname)
+  STRING(REPLACE "/" "." ${varname} "${str}")
+  STRING(REPLACE "+" "p" ${varname} "${str}")
+  STRING(REPLACE "-" "m" ${varname} "${str}")
+  STRING(REGEX REPLACE "[^a-zA-Z_0-9.]" "_" ${varname} "${${varname}}")
+  STRING(LENGTH "${${varname}}" len)
+  # FIXME: the prefix length has to be controlled better
+  # Identifier should be smaller than 72 character
+  # We have to cut down the length to 40 chars, since we add prefixes
+  # pretty often
+  IF(len GREATER 40)   
+    STRING(SUBSTRING  "${${varname}}" 0 37 shortstr)
+    GET_PROPERTY(LOCAL_LIST GLOBAL PROPERTY ID_SET)
+    LIST(FIND LOCAL_LIST "${${varname}}" STRING_ID)
+    IF(${STRING_ID} EQUAL -1)
+      LIST(APPEND LOCAL_LIST "${${varname}}")
+      SET_PROPERTY(GLOBAL PROPERTY ID_SET "${LOCAL_LIST}")
+      LIST(LENGTH LOCAL_LIST STRING_ID)
+      MATH(EXPR STRING_ID "${STRING_ID}-1" )
+    ENDIF()
+    SET(${varname} "${shortstr}${STRING_ID}")
+  ENDIF()
+ENDMACRO()
+
 FUNCTION(TRAVERSE_FILES dir topdir file file_comp  dir_root)
   FILE(RELATIVE_PATH dir_rel ${topdir} ${dir})
   IF(dir_rel)

packaging/WiX/mysql_server.wxs.in

@@ -62,32 +62,6 @@
       <RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallInitialize"/>
     </InstallExecuteSequence>
  
-    <?if "@LINK_STATIC_RUNTIME_LIBRARIES@"="OFF" ?>
-      <?if "@Platform@"="x64"?>
-        <Property Id="VS08REDISTX64">
-          <RegistrySearch Id="FindRedistVS08"
-              Root="HKLM"
-              Key="SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\153AA053AF120723B8A73845437E66DA"
-              Name="Version"
-              Type="raw" />
-        </Property>
-        <Condition Message="This application requires Visual Studio 2008 x64 Redistributable. Please install the Redistributable then run this installer again.">
-          Installed OR VS08REDISTX64
-        </Condition>
-        <?elseif "@Platform@"="x86" ?>
-        <Property Id="VS08REDISTX86">
-          <RegistrySearch Id="FindRedistVS08"
-              Root="HKLM"
-              Key="SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\6F9E66FF7E38E3A3FA41D89E8A906A4A"
-              Name="Version"
-              Type="raw" />
-        </Property>
-        <Condition Message="This application requires Visual Studio 2008 x86 Redistributable. Please install the Redistributable then run this installer again.">
-          Installed OR VS08REDISTX86
-        </Condition>
-      <?endif?>
-    <?endif?>
- 
     <!-- Save/restore install location -->
     <CustomAction Id="SaveTargetDir" Property="ARPINSTALLLOCATION" Value="[INSTALLDIR]" />
     <InstallExecuteSequence>