add "a" for autotools to version number
brute force wait for slave to catch up
brute force wait for slave to catch up
make "make distcheck" work (some files were not distributed,
some shared libraries not found in test environment, and
some workarounds were needed to avoid having mysqltest write
into the source dir
do not copy .cnf file when building "in-source"
testconf.inc is a generated file and doesn't need to be distributed
additional error checking to catch failed mkdir / cp operations
mysqltest helper file - sleep for 1s without generating log output
ignore additiona package formats