Hi Daniel,
You are not alone in your quest to successfully start the mysqld
server on a Mac OSX platform. I am having similiar difficulty
on my ibook...
--- On Thu 01/22, Daniel Lahey < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Daniel Lahey [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:39:39 -0800
Subject: So, how do you REALLY install MySQL in Mac OS X (Panther)?!
Ok, I've read the release notes, the manual, the threads on this <br>mailing list,
installed/removed/re-installed about 5 times, tried <br>4.0.1, 4.1, 5.0, and I can't
get MySQL to run on my Mac (dual-proc <br>867MHz, 768MB RAM). When I run configure,
it tells me everything is <br>hunky-dory and that I should just be happy and run
mysqld. I try to <br>run mysqld and it immediately aborts and tells me that
/tmp/mysql.sock <br>isn't set up. If I try to run mysqladmin -u root password
<password> <br>just like the manual tells me to, it aborts as above and tells me to
<br>run mysqld (or mysqld_safe). The manual tells me I can "just click on <br>the dmg
file and follow the instructions." I've done that for both the <br>distribution and
the startup item several times (and re-started several <br>times in between). I've
read the manual about security and the root <br>user account as the message instructed
me to do. No help. I even <br>tried to compile the control center using the
instructions I found for <br>that, installed Qt as instructed, compiled it (I think,
the <br>instructions for that were along the lines of: "Now just compile it and
<br>you're all done!" Hah! Do you hear me? Hah, I say.) The <br>"instructions"
don't tell me where to install it or how to test for a <br>valid installation. When I
try to compile CC it says "install Qt <br>first." I did. 3 times. In 3 different
places. Copied all of the <br>include and lib files all over the freakin' hard drive
to try to make <br>it happy. Not happy.<br><br>Ok, now, are there REAL instructions
for installing some working <br>version of MySQL on a Mac somewhere? What do I REALLY
have to do? Has <br>someone actually documented the entire process or does the
<br>documentation consist of the vague, scattered hints I've been able to <br>find?
I'd love to check out MySQL, but do I have to learn a secret <br>handshake or pledge
allegiance to Open Source or something?<br><br>Thanks for any help. Sorry to rant,
but I've been working on this for <br>three days now.<br><br>- Dan<br><br>P.S. Any
notes on using it with Xcode would be appreciated, too.<br><br><br>-- <br>MySQL
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