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29 Oct 2007

Sphinx Quick Fix

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Here’s one small filesystem tweak that’s been handy as I’ve been slowly rebuilding my development environment on Leopard over the last couple of days. It’s to get Sphinx working – there was no problems with compilation or installation, but when I ran searchd or indexer, it complained about not finding the mysql libraries:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.15.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/indexer
  Reason: image not found

Now, the expected file path is incorrect – it shouldn’t have the second ‘mysql’. My attempts to change that with various configuration flags didn’t work, so I cheated, and added the folder as a symbolic link:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql

Suggestions of a cleaner solution always welcome.

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04 Jul 2008
Jon Crawford said:

Hey, I just found this article while having similar issues. I found this article at the same time.
http://mrpmorris.blogspot.com/2007/06/installing-rails-on-mac.html

Towards the bottom it speaks about these issues and offers a different solution and an explanation for the problem. I went with your solution for fear of screwing up my currently-functioning Rails stack.

I don’t understand all the mechanics of everything, but if you think the other article is a better solution, please let me know.

Thanks!

04 Jul 2008
pat said:

Hi Jon

Good to know this post was helpful to someone. Looking at the other solution, I’m not sure which is better – they are using an Apple CLI tool, so perhaps that’s the recommended solution… but like you, I don’t have my head around the mechanics of it all, so I’m not sure.

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