Ok, I've read the release notes, the manual, the threads on this
mailing list, installed/removed/re-installed about 5 times, tried
4.0.1, 4.1, 5.0, and I can't get MySQL to run on my Mac (dual-proc
867MHz, 768MB RAM). When I run configure, it tells me everything is
hunky-dory and that I should just be happy and run mysqld. I try to
run mysqld and it immediately aborts and tells me that /tmp/mysql.sock
isn't set up. If I try to run mysqladmin -u root password <password>
just like the manual tells me to, it aborts as above and tells me to
run mysqld (or mysqld_safe). The manual tells me I can "just click on
the dmg file and follow the instructions." I've done that for both the
distribution and the startup item several times (and re-started several
times in between). I've read the manual about security and the root
user account as the message instructed me to do. No help. I even
tried to compile the control center using the instructions I found for
that, installed Qt as instructed, compiled it (I think, the
instructions for that were along the lines of: "Now just compile it and
you're all done!" Hah! Do you hear me? Hah, I say.) The
"instructions" don't tell me where to install it or how to test for a
valid installation. When I try to compile CC it says "install Qt
first." I did. 3 times. In 3 different places. Copied all of the
include and lib files all over the freakin' hard drive to try to make
it happy. Not happy.
Ok, now, are there REAL instructions for installing some working
version of MySQL on a Mac somewhere? What do I REALLY have to do? Has
someone actually documented the entire process or does the
documentation consist of the vague, scattered hints I've been able to
find? I'd love to check out MySQL, but do I have to learn a secret
handshake or pledge allegiance to Open Source or something?
Thanks for any help. Sorry to rant, but I've been working on this for
three days now.
- Dan
P.S. Any notes on using it with Xcode would be appreciated, too.
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