Comments on: Mac OS 10.5: Leopard

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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:03:21 +0000

[...] these error messages turned up surprisingly little. On another blog with a post titled, “Mac OS 10.5: Leopard” that mentioned difficulties with DBI, commenters suggested various solutions, but none of them [...]

By: Amir

Amir — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:22:26 +0000

Also try symlinking the sock. Worked for me.

ln -s /usr/local/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock

By: Pascal

Pascal — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:47:59 +0000

Thank you for the hints, had the same issue with DBD and Leopard.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:21:59 +0000

Glad you got it working Dan!

By: Dan Wolfgang

Dan Wolfgang — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:22:05 +0000

For anybody else reading, here’s what I did: http://groups.google.com/group/perl.macosx/browse_thread/thread/60f2db2fcda3b240/458ad807d0754f9f?#458ad807d0754f9f
Basically, I needed a /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/ folder with the lib/ files in it. I know the –CFLAGS switch should take care of that… but whatever, at least it works!

By: Dan Wolfgang

Dan Wolfgang — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:31:02 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Dave, but I did try those version of the modules with no luck. I feel I must be missing something obvious because others have obviously made it work. The search continues!

By: davermont

davermont — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:35:01 +0000

Dan:

Did you have any luck installing older versions, specifically DBI::Mysql 1.47 and DBD::Mysql 2.9006? That did the trick for me. If that doesn’t work, I can only advise continuing to search for solutions from other adventurous souls.

Good luck,

– d

By: Dan Wolfgang

Dan Wolfgang — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:22:04 +0000

I’ve been unsuccessful at getting DBD::mysql to install successfully on Leopard. Following the instructions from Beatnik and codeFiend both result in builds that don’t throw errors, however DBD::mysql doesn’t work, and make test throws gobs of errors. Any further tips?

By: BodhiCat

BodhiCat — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:50:59 +0000

Well, BodhiCat must apologize. The computer was shipped with 10.4, which is what I have been using. So my problems were with 10.4, not 10.5. It did include a 10.5 disk, apparently 10.5 came out just before it was shipped. So I will install 10.5 and see if it takes care of some of these problems.

By: davermont

davermont — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:28:44 +0000

Other than struggling with Spaces switching unexpectedly, I really haven’t had many issues with Leopard. I got MySQL working with PHP and Perl (see above), but I have to admit I don’t use SQLite. No problems compressing or uncompressing files (.zip or .tar or .tar.gz).

One other thing I’ve noticed is that CocoaMySQL won’t let me drag and drop table columns to reorder them.

The 10.5.1 update didn’t fix my Spaces problems like I’d hoped, but maybe the next update…