True that, in Fedora, we use:

-DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR=share/mysql-test

-DWITH_UNIT_TESTS=%{?with_test:ON}%{!?with_test:NO}

%if %{without test}

%if %{with embedded}

rm %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/{mysqltest_embedded,mysql_client_test_embedded}

rm %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/{mysqltest_embedded,mysql_client_test_embedded}.1*

%endif # embedded

rm %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/{mysql_client_test,my_safe_process,mysqltest}

rm %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/{mysql_client_test,my_safe_process,mysqltest}.1*

rm %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/{mysql-test-run,mysql-stress-test}.pl.1*

rm -r %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/mysql-test

%endif # test

which means, we are basically deleting them all, if we don't want them.

So if there's some easier way, I'd like to know that too

Apparently we don't have it, but I think it's a reasonable request, so I'm moving it to tasks.

yinfuyuan , did you actually try passing -DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR= to cmake? It should work here as well

@Elena Stepanova
Ok.Thanks for your help.

yinfuyuan We do have INSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR option , and it does work the same as in MySQL. you do not need to pass that as -DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR="" . You can pass it as -DMYSQLTESTDIR=
elenst fyi

Right, sorry for the confusion. In my comment I meant that we apparently don't have a way to avoid installing mysql-test, not that we don't have the option. I didn't know that it could work this way, happy to be wrong.

@Vladislav Vaintroub
I've tried -DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR="" and -DMYSQLTESTDIR= , but they don't work. The following can see my compilation details.
https://github.com/yinfuyuan/docker-mariadb/blob/develop/services/mariadb/10.2/alpine/Dockerfile
Is that have a problem? .Thanks for you help.

it works for me, and should for you, too

cmake . -DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR=

and mysql-test is not in the package
your dockerfile das have a problem indeed, because it does not use correct option. How do I know correct option? I grep CMakeCache.txt, and I look into cmake/install_macros.cmake to see the effect of INSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR.
Apparently, this line https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/10.2/cmake/install_macros.cmake#L357 does the magic

@Vladislav Vaintroub
Yes.

I know cmake ../server -LH can be display all cmake configuration options for MariaDB from
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/generic-build-instructions
but the -DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR option is not available,so I didn't try it.

Now. I used it correctly, it works well.
Thank you very mach for you help.

Our documentation a little simplified

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.10/manual/cmake.1.html contains accurate description of what cmake -L[A][H] does .
List non-advanced cached variables.

"Non-advanced" is important part. INSTALL_XXX variables are marked as advanced.
but you can cat or vi CMakeCache.txt to see all variables.