mecab-devel, where are you?

To compile MySQL from srpm on AlmaLinux8, you need mecab-devel, which doesn't seem to exist. After some digging around, this is the solution I found :

sudo yum --enablerepo=powertools group install "Development Tools"
sudo yum install make gcc-c++ rpmbuild

mkdir -pv ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
wget 'https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4y35FiV1wh7cENtOXlicTFaRUE' -O mecab-0.996.tar.gz
cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
wget https://git.almalinux.org/rpms/mecab/raw/branch/c8-stream-8.0/SPECS/mecab.spec

rpmbuild -ba mecab.spec

cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
sudo yum install mecab*.rpm

This isn't perfect. Why would someone host their code on Google drive? But it seems this is what the author wanted.