Sphinx Quick Fix

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.

Jon Crawford left a comment on 4 Jul, 2008:

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!

pat left a comment on 4 Jul, 2008:

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.

Reset left a comment on 18 May, 2009:

Late response, but this might be helpful for somebody.

When you ./configure sphinx you should specify your lib and includes directory like this..

./configure —with-mysql-includes=/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql/ —with-mysql-libs=/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/

That should solve your problem.