What is it with this readline business? Some day I’m definately going to investigate this Apple readline versus the Public (well perhaps not necessarily that Public, but public as in open software).
’till then, I’ll have to settle for that quick and dirty work-around suggested by Juan Matias.
It’s not that it really is a big deal to comment out two lines in
/usr/local/include/openssl/bn.h
but if you’re any less fluent in Terminal and friends, then me, you’d be stuck right at this intersection.
I received my copy of the Snow Leopard back in February, as I recall it, but kept it shelved until now.
Trying to keep my production running, I decided to buy an iMac – it would double as our kitchen computer later on – and do an initial setup on that.
iMac setup
I googled a recipe by Hugo Frappier which got me of to a good start.
As to the ‘auto’ launching I tried it out but somehow it makes it very close to impossible to stop/start at will – so when I installed on my Macbook Pro, I left this step out, effectively leaving me with mysql.server start/stop at the prompt!
An upgraded MySQLpref.pane surely would come in handy, but I’m yet to discover that 🙂
Macbook Pro setup
Finally I was about to be ready to do what I originally set out to do – getting ‘snow’ on my Macbook Pro Leopard.
To that end, I tried to stay with a recipe which I googled to find at railsfire.com. I’m a happy Carbon Copy Cloner user so I skipped the SuperDuper install, but that issue aside, I stayed close to the recipe, until item 8, where all hell broke loose.
To be precise, I kept with item 8 through 14 – but everytime the installer informed me that the installer was not able to continue with installing Snow Leopard to this drive. I was stumped and baffled, tried to remove the partition, recreating it and erasing it over and over. I reboot’ed 2-3 times – with and without the DVD. On the verge of giving in and restoring my original backup of Leopard, I went for the Snow Leopard DVD I purchased back in February! Until now I’d been trying with the media accompanying the iMac. Heureka!
From there onwards it was – again – a walk in the park. I departed with the recipe at item 18 and switched to another recipe by Hugo Frappier.
I’m in flux – moving from Leopard to Snow Leopard – and though I probably could make the transition by just running the Migration Assistant, I’m really not that confident (sorry Steve Jobs, it’s nothing personal).
Hence all the work, planning and backing up.
Now I’m ready to move my mysql data tables – but I think that prior to moving them in place, I should stop the server daemon.
I started them with
/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.1.41/bin/mysqld_safe
which turned out to be more than enough to make it next to impossible to me stopping it! Now, like 2 x 12-14 hrs of work later, I’m still not convinced that I am infact in the drivers seat, pertaining to MySQL!
(MySQL Workbench for sure is not able to control the daemon)
I hope blogging will become part of my job in time – right now I find it pretty hard 😦
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