diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 947719b11c37c9f2c5fe0190cd06347444dd4ed3..ee1420a1f53b6a207d5dd4f85c362a2177a7f692 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -561,7 +561,6 @@ testfont binary
 /src/modules/Msql/version.h foreign_ident
 /src/modules/Mysql/Makefile.in foreign_ident
 /src/modules/Mysql/acconfig.h foreign_ident
-/src/modules/Mysql/configure.in foreign_ident
 /src/modules/Mysql/dummy.c foreign_ident
 /src/modules/Mysql/mysql.c foreign_ident
 /src/modules/Mysql/precompiled_mysql.h foreign_ident
diff --git a/src/modules/Mysql/configure.in b/src/modules/Mysql/configure.in
index f6e06a68468f072267ac1a9e04c57ebea142c1ba..63964a4bda4e2058fd412acdcef68ec564b0425c 100644
--- a/src/modules/Mysql/configure.in
+++ b/src/modules/Mysql/configure.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# $Id: configure.in,v 1.62 2010/05/03 11:26:21 grubba Exp $
+# $Id$
 #
 # Configure script for the mysql-module
 #
@@ -324,9 +324,22 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 #ifdef MYSQL_VERSION_ID
   unsigned long ver = mysql_get_client_version();
-  if((ver/100) != (MYSQL_VERSION_ID/100)) {
+  unsigned long expected_ver = MYSQL_VERSION_ID;
+#if defined(MARIADB_PACKAGE_VERSION_ID) && (MARIADB_PACKAGE_VERSION_ID >= 30201)
+  /* From MariaDB/mysql_get_client_version(3) (CONC-509/CONC-554):
+   *
+   *   Note: Since MariaDB Server 10.2.6 and MariaDB Connector/C 3.0.1 the
+   *   client library is bundled with server package and returns the server
+   *   package version.
+   *
+   * The above however does not seem to be true, and the change instead
+   * happened a few commits before the bump to MariaDB Connector/C 3.2.1.
+   */
+  expected_ver = MARIADB_PACKAGE_VERSION_ID;
+#endif
+  if((ver/100) != (expected_ver/100)) {
     fprintf(stderr, "Version mismatch: compile=%lu, run=%lu\n",
-            (unsigned long)MYSQL_VERSION_ID, ver);
+            (unsigned long)expected_ver, ver);
     exit(1);
   }
 #endif