From 70737a1666a3ac37ef99d5cadfda6116ee530390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morgan Tocker <tocker@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:22:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix regression introduced by #4993

Signed-off-by: Morgan Tocker <tocker@gmail.com>
---
 go/vt/mysqlctl/mysqld.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/go/vt/mysqlctl/mysqld.go b/go/vt/mysqlctl/mysqld.go
index 7279265894c..82e90c60213 100644
--- a/go/vt/mysqlctl/mysqld.go
+++ b/go/vt/mysqlctl/mysqld.go
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ func (mysqld *Mysqld) startNoWait(ctx context.Context, cnf *Mycnf, mysqldArgs ..
 		}
 		arg := []string{
 			"--defaults-file=" + cnf.path,
-			"--basedir" + mysqlBaseDir,
+			"--basedir=" + mysqlBaseDir,
 		}
 		arg = append(arg, mysqldArgs...)
 		env := []string{os.ExpandEnv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VT_MYSQL_ROOT/lib/mysql")}