Hey all, I'm trying to install 64-bit MySQL on Snow Leopard for a rails app.
I've installed it from the dmg and I can get to mysql fine from the command line. Based on various blog posts as well as the other topics here on Stack, I shut down mysql, uninstall the mysql gem, and then try to update the gem with the following:
sudo env ARCHFLAGS='-arch x86_64' gem install --verbose --no-rdoc --no-ri mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
That produces the following:
GET 200 OK: http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
Installing gem mysql-2.8.1
Downloading gem mysql-2.8.1.gem
GET 302 Found: http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/mysql-2.8.1.gem
GET 200 OK: http://s3.amazonaws.com/gemcutter_production/gems/mysql-2.8.1.gem
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/COPYING
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/COPYING.ja
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/History.txt
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/Manifest.txt
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/README.txt
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/Rakefile
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/ext/mysql_api/extconf.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/ext/mysql_api/mysql.c
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/extra/README.html
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/extra/README_ja.html
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/extra/tommy.css
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib/mysql.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/tasks/gem.rake
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/tasks/native.rake
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/tasks/vendor_mysql.rake
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/test/test_mysql.rb
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
/usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
checking for mysql_ssl_set()... no
checking for rb_str_set_len()... no
checking for rb_thread_start_timer()... no
checking for mysql.h... yes
creating Makefile
make
gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin8.0 -I. -DHAVE_MYSQL_H -I/usr/local/mysql/include -g -Os -arch x86_64 -fno-common -D_P1003_1B_VISIBLE -DSIGNAL_WITH_VIO_CLOSE -DSIGNALS_DONT_BREAK_READ -DIGNORE_SIGHUP_SIGQUIT -DDONT_DECLARE_CXA_PURE_VIRTUAL -fno-common -g -O2 -fno-common -pipe -fno-common -arch i386 -c mysql.c
cc -dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress -flat_namespace -arch i386 -L"/usr/local/lib" -o mysql_api.bundle mysql.o -lruby -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lm -lmygcc -lpthread -ldl -lobjc
ld: warning: in /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmygcc.a, file is not of required architecture
make install
/usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 mysql_api.bundle /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib
Successfully installed mysql-2.8.1
1 gem installed
Those two warnings at the end seem ominous. I then go to my rails app and run
rake db:migrate
And get:
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _mysql_affected_rows
Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib/mysql_api.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace
in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib/mysql_api.bundle
Trace/BPT trap
And that's as far as I'm able to get. I've tried installing MySQL via the dmg and via macports and I seem to run into this error in both cases.
I'm kind of a noob when it comes to rails; any light anyone can shed would be wildly appreciated. Thanks!
--- EDIT ---
In response to John's (and khelll's) answers below:
When I do the first command that John specified, I get:
No definition for next_result
No definition for field_name
No definition for field_table
There's about 40 lines of this. I assumed this was because of the documentation. But when I do rake db:migrate I get:
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _mysql_affected_rows
Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib/mysql_api.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace
in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib/mysql_api.bundle
Trace/BPT trap
Using the ARCHFLAGS command produces the error I specified earlier.
--- SECOND EDIT ---
I should add that I did not install from source. After peeking at the Hivelogic instructions again, I went down this route.
When I tried to run:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-extra-charsets=complex \
--enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile --enable-shared \
--with-plugins=innobase
I got:
config.status: creating zlib/Makefile
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/gawk
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
./config.status: line 1782: 69228 Done(141) eval sed ç"ç$ac_sed_extraç" "$ac_file_inputs"
69229 Trace/BPT trap
So I did:
sudo port deactivate gettext
sudo port activate gettext #0.17_3
However, after following all the steps, reinstalling the gem, upon rake db:migrate I still get:
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _mysql_affected_rows
Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib/mysql_api.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace
in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib/mysql_api.bundle
Trace/BPT trap
---- THIRD EDIT ----
Okay - I believe what's happening here is that, even though I'm specifying the 64 bit gem above, it's installing the 32 bit version. I do:
file /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib/mysql_api.bundle
And get:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib/mysql_api.bundle: Mach-O bundle i386
So it would seem I keep installing the 32 bit version
I installed it from source following these instructions on Hivelogic and it works great. Then I installed the MySQL RubyGem using:
sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
Related
i want to use mysql in lua program. But when run require "luasql.mysql",
throws error infomation
error loading module 'luasql.mysql' from file '/usr/local/luarocks/lib/lua/5.4/luasql/mysql.so':
/usr/local/luarocks/lib/lua/5.4/luasql/mysql.so:1: unexpected symbol near '<\207>'
stack traceback:
[C]: in ?
[C]: in function 'require'
stdin:1: in main chunk
[C]: in ?
I install lua and mysql by brew.
which lua is /opt/homebrew/bin/lua, lua -v is Lua 5.4.3 Copyright (C) 1994-2021 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
which mysql is /opt/homebrew/bin/mysql, mysql -V is mysql Ver 8.0.23 for osx10.16 on x86_64 (Homebrew)
install luarocks by luarocks source code, this is the source code website (https://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases/ ), luarocks --version is
/usr/local/luarocks/bin/luarocks 3.9.1
LuaRocks main command-line interface
which luarocks is /usr/local/bin/luarocks
Install luasql-mysql by command
luarocks install luasql-mysql MYSQL_INCDIR=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/mysql/8.0.23_1/include/mysql MYSQL_LIBDIR=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/mysql/8.0.23_1/lib
and then the result is
env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11.0 gcc -O2 -fPIC -I/opt/homebrew/include/lua5.4 -c src/luasql.c -o src/luasql.o -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/mysql/8.0.23_1/include/mysql
env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11.0 gcc -O2 -fPIC -I/opt/homebrew/include/lua5.4 -c src/ls_mysql.c -o src/ls_mysql.o -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/mysql/8.0.23_1/include/mysql
env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11.0 gcc -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -all_load -o luasql/mysql.so src/luasql.o src/ls_mysql.o -L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/mysql/8.0.23_1/lib -lmysqlclient
luasql-mysql 2.6.0-1 is now installed in /usr/local/luarocks (license: MIT/X11)
run luarocks list, the result is
Rocks installed for Lua 5.4
---------------------------
luarocks
3.9.1-1 (installed) - /usr/local/luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.4
luasql-mysql
2.6.0-1 (installed) - /usr/local/luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.4
I config export LUA_PATH="/usr/local/luarocks/lib/lua/5.4/?.so;;" in .zshrc profile. When execute print(package.path), the output is
/usr/local/luarocks/lib/lua/5.4/?.so;/opt/homebrew/share/lua/5.4/?.lua;/opt/homebrew/share/lua/5.4/?/init.lua;/opt/homebrew/lib/lua/5.4/?.lua;/opt/homebrew/lib/lua/5.4/?/init.lua;./?.lua;./?/init.lua
so run require "luasql.mysql", i don't know the reason about
error loading module...
how should i solve this problem, is anyone knows?
i expected anyone else tell me how to solve this problem
fail install mysql when run bundle install
i try to install rails project that use mysql2 as database, but i got this error when try to install mysql
-----
Don't know how to set rpath on your system, if MySQL libraries are not in path mysql2 may not load
-----
-----
Setting libpath to /opt/homebrew/Cellar/mysql/8.0.26/lib
-----
creating Makefile
current directory: /Users/<username>/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.3/ext/mysql2
make "DESTDIR=" clean
current directory: /Users/<username>/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.3/ext/mysql2
make "DESTDIR="
compiling client.c
compiling infile.c
compiling mysql2_ext.c
compiling result.c
compiling statement.c
linking shared-object mysql2/mysql2.bundle
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/'
ld: library not found for -lssl
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [mysql2.bundle] Error 1
make failed, exit code 2
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/<username>/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.3 for
inspection.
Results logged to
/Users/<username>/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.5/extensions/-darwin-20/2.6.0/mysql2-0.5.3/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing mysql2 (0.5.3), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install mysql2 -v '0.5.3' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'` succeeds before
bundling.
In Gemfile:
mysql2
seems like 'bundle' try to access ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/'
meanwhil openssl path is on : opt/homebrew/opt/openssl#1.1/lib/
how to change '-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/' to opt/homebrew/opt/openssl#1.1/lib/
someone can help ?
Please install the following Linux packages if you're using Linux:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git curl libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf bison build-essential libyaml-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm-dev
many RubyGems required native libraries from them.
and run bundle install again.
The same thing happens to me in Rails 6.1.4.1 (Ruby 3.0.1p64).
I have tried to executed brew info openssl, then follow display some guide.
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl#1.1/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/user/.bash_profile
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.14.4
I am PHP developer by trade and I work with XAMPP. I have decided to dive into Ruby now and I want to use the MySQL installation from XAMPP for Ruby and I am having a problem getting the Gem for mysql to install properly.
The command I am executing is this:
sudo gem install mysql -- —–with-mysql-config=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql_config
and the error I get is this:
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20150126-99463-2b5bwp.rb extconf.rb
checking for mysql_ssl_set()... no
checking for rb_str_set_len()... yes
checking for rb_thread_start_timer()... no
checking for mysql.h... yes
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-L/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib'
creating Makefile
make "DESTDIR=" clean
make "DESTDIR="
compiling mysql.c
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-L/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib'
linking shared-object mysql/mysql_api.bundle
ld: library not found for -lmysqlclient
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [mysql_api.bundle] Error 1
make failed, exit code 2
Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/mysql-2.9.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/extensions/universal-darwin-14/2.0.0/mysql-2.9.1/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing mysql (2.9.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install mysql -v '2.9.1'` succeeds before bundling.
If I do a locate mysql_config, I get this:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql_config
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql_config_editor
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/man/man1/mysql_config.1
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/man/man1/mysql_config_editor.1
I have gone through all of the help requests on SO and I cannot find a solution to my particular problem.
Any help would be appreciated. Please let me know if you need any further information.
Thanks!
This worked for me on MacOS X High Sierra using RubyGems:
gem install mysql2 -- \
--with-mysql-config=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql_config \
--with-mysql-dir=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/mysql/ \
--with-mysql-lib=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/mysql/ \
--with-mysql-include=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/include/ \
--no-ri --no-rdoc
I figured out with this:
bundle config build.mysql --with-mysql-config=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql_config
gem install mysql2
my client:
require 'mysql2'
client = Mysql2::Client.new(:host => "127.0.0.1", :username => "root")
I notice the OP had XAMMP installed. Here is what I had to do to get this to work after installing XAMPP. I warn you that this is not elegant, but it does allow you to avoid a second installation of mysql
# first, fake the location of the headers
sudo ln -s /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles /usr/local/mysql
# second, let the libraries etc show up where they are expected:
cd /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql
for i in ../libmysql*; do sudo ln -s $i .; done
# and finally, one last hack for dynamic loading to work
sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib
I warned you that it was a bit ugly :-)
I've never used the ARCHFLAGS command before and am in way over my head.
I'm struggling with getting the MySQL gem working on Snow Leopard in 64 bit.
What I'm doing is this command:
sudo env ARCHFLAGS='-arch x86_64' gem install --verbose --no-rdoc --no-ri mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
The output looks like this:
.....
make
gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin8.0 -I. -DHAVE_RB_THREAD_START_TIMER -DHAVE_MYSQL_H -I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql -D_P1003_1B_VISIBLE -DSIGNAL_WITH_VIO_CLOSE -DSIGNALS_DONT_BREAK_READ -DIGNORE_SIGHUP_SIGQUIT -DDONT_DECLARE_CXA_PURE_VIRTUAL -fno-common -g -O2 -fno-common -pipe -fno-common -arch i386 -c mysql.c
cc -dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress -flat_namespace -arch i386 -L"/usr/local/lib" -o mysql_api.bundle mysql.o -lruby -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lm -lpthread -ldl -lobjc
ld: warning: in /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.dylib, file is not of required architecture
make install
/usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 mysql_api.bundle /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/lib
Successfully installed mysql-2.8.1
1 gem installed
What I see is that it specifically specifies -arch i386 even though I'm telling it not to; directly after, it gives me the warning about the file not being the required architecture, because it's not. It's 64 bit.
Running the file command gives this:
file /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.dylib
/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.dylib: Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
So of course it's not the required architecture. It seems that the gem install is ignoring my ARCHFLAGS command. Any idea why this would be? Like I said, I'm in way over my head on this stuff :P
Thanks so much all! - Kevin
Here's what I did:
export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"
sudo gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri mysql -v 2.7 -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
I specified version 2.7 because there seemed to be a problem with subsequent versions. I'd try the latest version and see if it works first.
Have you reviewed the comments at Rails + MySQL on Snow Leopard
There is a lot of discussion around the setup and installation which may assist. I build the MySQL binaries from source following advice from Build MySQL on Snow Leopard.
First I wanted to build the DBD::mysql package. That kept failing because whatever make resulted in could not be loaded for the tests with a Symbol not found: _is_prefix. So I assumed that cpan might be a tad old. I know it's a random assumption, but cpan did tell me to install the latest Bundle::CPAN.
Who's successfully installed either DBD::mysql or Bundle::CPAN on Mac OS X 10.5? Could you recommend any thing I could be doing differently?
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 4 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.36,
for apple-darwin9.5.0 (i386) using readline 5.1
Here's a log of the CPAN output for DBD::mysql:
Writing Makefile for DBD::mysql
cc -c -I/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBI -I/usr/local/mysql/include -DDBD_MYSQL_INSERT_ID_IS_GOOD -g -arch ppc -arch i386 -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -O3 -DVERSION=\"4.012\" -DXS_VERSION=\"4.012\" "-I/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE" dbdimp.c
/usr/bin/perl -p -e "s/~DRIVER~/mysql/g" /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBI/Driver.xst > mysql.xsi
Running Mkbootstrap for DBD::mysql ()
chmod 644 mysql.bs
/usr/bin/perl /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/ExtUtils/typemap mysql.xs > mysql.xsc && mv mysql.xsc mysql.c
cp lib/DBD/mysql.pm blib/lib/DBD/mysql.pm
cp lib/DBD/mysql/GetInfo.pm blib/lib/DBD/mysql/GetInfo.pm
cp lib/DBD/mysql/INSTALL.pod blib/lib/DBD/mysql/INSTALL.pod
cp lib/Bundle/DBD/mysql.pm blib/lib/Bundle/DBD/mysql.pm
cp mysql.bs blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bs
chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bs
Warning: duplicate function definition 'do' detected in mysql.xs, line 225
Warning: duplicate function definition 'rows' detected in mysql.xs, line 650
cc -c -I/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBI -I/usr/local/mysql/include -DDBD_MYSQL_INSERT_ID_IS_GOOD -g -arch ppc -arch i386 -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -O3 -DVERSION=\"4.012\" -DXS_VERSION=\"4.012\" "-I/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE" mysql.c
dbdimp.c: In function 'mysql_describe':
dbdimp.c:3309: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
dbdimp.c: In function 'mysql_describe':
dbdimp.c:3309: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle
LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/local/mysql/lib" /usr/bin/perl myld cc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5.7 -arch ppc -arch i386 -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib dbdimp.o mysql.o -o blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle \
-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lm \
chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle
Manifying blib/man3/DBD::mysql.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/DBD::mysql::INSTALL.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/Bundle::DBD::mysql.3pm
CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.012.tar.gz
/usr/bin/make -j3 -j3 -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00base.t .................. 1/6 Bailout called. Further testing stopped: Unable to load DBD::mysql
# Failed test 'use DBD::mysql;'
# at t/00base.t line 21.
# Tried to use 'DBD::mysql'.
# Error: Can't load '/Users/dlamblin/.cpan/build/DBD-mysql-4.012-4n3pv8/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle' for module DBD::mysql: dlopen(/Users/dlamblin/.cpan/build/DBD-mysql-4.012-4n3pv8/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle, 2): Symbol not found: _is_prefix
# Referenced from: /Users/dlamblin/.cpan/build/DBD-mysql-4.012-4n3pv8/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle
# Expected in: dynamic lookup
# at (eval 7) line 2
# Compilation failed in require at (eval 7) line 2.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 7) line 2.
FAILED--Further testing stopped: Unable to load DBD::mysql
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.012.tar.gz
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
reports CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.012.tar.gz
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.012.tar.gz : make_test NO
Okay, if you get these errors I now know the following:
MySQL 5.1 for Mac OS X x86_64 is not compatible with DBD::mysql (yet). Install the 32-bit x86 version, and try again. You'll succeed. I wish the perl Makefile.pl would just tell you that in a banner.
Bundle::CPAN had issues because I wasn't installing as root. Why that makes it report circular references instead of installation permission issues, I'll never understand.
Please add a comment if and when this became outdated information.
Installing the (beta) 5.4.1 64 bit version of mysql, available from their developer website, fixes the issue. Tested on Snow Leopard.
Did you try installing Bundle::DBD::mysql?
I haven't dealt with this problem, but I found that MacPorts cleaned up all my UNIX incompatibility problems. You might want to try that before enduring too much pain and suffering.
Where is it complaining about a circular dependency? It looks like you are trying to link to an incompatible version of the mysql libraries. The symbol it's looking for isn't in the library you loaded. I don't think this is a problem caused by CPAN.pm or the cpan script.
Some questions:
Who compiled perl? Is this Apple's perl?
Who compiled mysql? Is that your own version since it's in /usr/local?
Did you previously compile other versions? I start with a compile to ensure everything points to the right places.
Installing latest beta 64bit version of Mysql fixed problem on my computer.