Leopard set-up notesEdit

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Preferences

  • Appearance
    • Up "Recent items" to 50 each
  • Screensavers
    • Show clock
  • Spaces (System Preferences crashes)
    • Enable (2 rows, 2 columns)
    • Use Control-Option to switch spaces (Control alone is far too common)
  • Accounts
    • Remove old (Tiger) guest account
    • Set-up new (Leopard) guest account
  • Sound
    • Input
      • Use ambient noise reduction
  • Sharing
    • Turn off Bluetooth, File sharing
    • Turn on SSH
  • Software update
    • Search daily
  • Date and time
    • Turn on NTP updates

Developer tools

  • Install Xcode Tools

Other tools

sudoers

  • Add self back to sudoers file:
su admin_user
env EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano sudo visudo
exit

Set up backups

  • Set up cron job for automated backups of home directory (following instructions in ~/bin/homedir-backup.sh)
sudo crontab -e
  • Confirm set-up:
sudo crontab -l

Building and installing other software

In most cases I already had a copy of the source archive for the latest version still on my hard drive, so I was able to just change to the appropriate directory, re-extract if necessary, and build again.

cd wget-1.10
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install

cd ../../aee
tar xzvf aee-2.2.15b.tar.gz
cd aee-2.2.15b
make
sudo make install

cd ../../ee
tar xzvf ee-1.4.6.src.tgz
cd easyedit-1.4.6
make
sudo make install

cd ../../ragel
tar xzvf ragel-5.24.tar.gz
cd ragel-5.24
./configure
make
cd test
./runtests
cd ..
sudo make install

# a new version of Doxygen is now available
cd ../../doxygen
wget http://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/dimitri/Doxygen-1.5.4.dmg
hdiutil attach Doxygen-1.5.4.dmg
sudo ditto /Volumes/Doxygen /Applications/Doxygen
sudo mv /Applications/Doxygen/Doxygen.app /Applications/
sudo rm -r /Applications/Doxygen
hdiutil detach `hdiutil info | grep "/Volumes/Doxygen" | awk '{print $1}'`
wget ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/dimitri/doxygen_manual-1.5.4.pdf.zip

cd ../git
tar xjvf gnupg-1.4.7.tar.bz2
cd gnupg-1.4.7
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install

cd ..
tar xjvf git-1.5.3.4.tar.bz2
cd git-1.5.3.4
make prefix=/usr/local all
make prefix=/usr/local test
echo $?
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
cd ..
sudo tar xjv -C /usr/local/man -f git-manpages-1.5.3.4.tar.bz2

# now that Git is installed clone the Git repo
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

MySQL

Get public key from:

mkdir mysql
cd mysql
wget "http://mysql.rediris.es/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-5.0.45.tar.gz"
wget http://dev.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-5.0.45.tar.gz.asc
gpg --import mysql_public_key.asc
gpg --verify mysql-5.0.45.tar.gz.asc mysql-5.0.45.tar.gz

Unfortunately this wouldn’t build in 10.5.0:

ranlib: archive member: libmysys.a(my_new.o) cputype (7) does not match previous archive members cputype (18) (all members must match)
ranlib: archive member: libmysys.a(raid.o) cputype (7) does not match previous archive members cputype (18) (all members must match)
ranlib libmysys.a
ranlib: archive member: libmysys.a(my_new.o) cputype (7) does not match previous archive members cputype (18) (all members must match)
ranlib: archive member: libmysys.a(raid.o) cputype (7) does not match previous archive members cputype (18) (all members must match)
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(my_getpagesize.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(my_crc32.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(mf_brkhant.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(my_lockmem.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(my_port.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(my_netware.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(my_largepage.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(my_windac.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(my_access.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(my_libwrap.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(thr_mutex.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libmysys.a(thr_rwlock.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: i386 file: libmysys.a(my_new.o) has no symbols
ranlib: for architecture: i386 file: libmysys.a(raid.o) has no symbols
ranlib: warning for library: libmysys.a for architecture: i386 the table of contents is empty (no object file members in the library define global symbols)
make[2]: *** [libmysys.a] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Something seems to have changed in 10.5.1, however, and now the build works:

./configure &&
make &&
make check &&
sudo make install

On actually trying to use this build, however, I bombed out as follows:

touch: /usr/local/var/machine.lan.err: No such file or directory
chown: /usr/local/var/machine.lan.err: No such file or directory
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/var
/usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe: line 380: /usr/local/var/machine.lan.err: No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe: line 386: /usr/local/var/machine.lan.err: No such file or directory
STOPPING server from pid file /usr/local/var/machine.lan.pid
tee: /usr/local/var/machine.lan.err: No such file or directory
071129 20:01:38  mysqld ended
tee: /usr/local/var/machine.lan.err: No such file or directory

The output of the ./configure --help reveals the problem:

Installation directories:
  --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
			  [/usr/local]
  --exec-prefix=EPREFIX   install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
			  [PREFIX]

By default, `make install' will install all the files in
`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/lib' etc.  You can specify
an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' using `--prefix',
for instance `--prefix=$HOME'.

For better control, use the options below.

Fine tuning of the installation directories:
  --bindir=DIR           user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
  --sbindir=DIR          system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
  --libexecdir=DIR       program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
  --datadir=DIR          read-only architecture-independent data [PREFIX/share]
  --sysconfdir=DIR       read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
  --sharedstatedir=DIR   modifiable architecture-independent data [PREFIX/com]
  --localstatedir=DIR    modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
  --libdir=DIR           object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
  --includedir=DIR       C header files [PREFIX/include]
  --oldincludedir=DIR    C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
  --infodir=DIR          info documentation [PREFIX/info]
  --mandir=DIR           man documentation [PREFIX/man]

At this point I have two options:

  • Create the directories that MySQL expects to find, like PREFIX/var (in this case that would be /usr/local/var/).
  • Rebuild after configuring using --prefix=/usr/local/mysql or similar.

In hindsight it would have been better to use a prefix like /usr/local/mysql all along and keep all the MySQL files in a single place, and make that place writable by the mysql user, but rebuilding now would mean leaving behind all the files previously installed at various points under /usr/local/.

As a compromise I decided to make use of as much of the previously installed material as possible:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/mysql
sudo chown mysql:mysql /usr/local/var/mysql
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/com/mysql
sudo chown mysql:mysql /usr/local/com/mysql

cd path_to_mysql_src_dir
make clean &&
./configure --sharedstatedir=/usr/local/com/mysql \
            --localstatedir=/usr/local/var/mysql &&
make &&
make test &&
sudo make install

It turns out that this still doesn’t work:

$ sudo -b mysqld_safe --log-error=/tmp/foo.log
Password:
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/var
STOPPING server from pid file /usr/local/var/cuzco.lan.pid
071129 23:26:42  mysqld ended
$ sudo cat /tmp/foo.log
071129 23:26:42  mysqld started
071129 23:26:42 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/var/ is case insensitive
071129 23:26:42  InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
InnoDB: the directory.
InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
071129 23:26:42  mysqld ended

As you can see, the --sharedstatedir and --localstatedir configuration options seem to have no effect as MySQL is still looking inside /usr/local/var/. Running mysql_config prints:

        --cflags         [-I/usr/local/include/mysql]
        --include        [-I/usr/local/include/mysql]
        --libs           [-L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lm]
        --libs_r         [-L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient_r -lz -lm]
        --socket         [/tmp/mysql.sock]
        --port           [3306]
        --version        [5.0.45]
        --libmysqld-libs [-L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqld -lz -lm]

So I decided to wipe the slate clean and do it the way MySQL evidently wants me to:

make --dry-run uninstall
sudo make uninstall &&
make clean &&
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql &&
make &&
make test &&
sudo make install

After installing, the fun was still not over yet. The output of sudo -b mysqld_safe --log-error=/tmp/bar.log was:

071130 10:48:47  mysqld started
071130 10:48:47 [Warning] Can't create test file /usr/local/mysql/var/cuzco.lower-test
071130 10:48:47 [Warning] Can't create test file /usr/local/mysql/var/cuzco.lower-test
/usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/usr/local/mysql/var/' (Errcode: 2)
071130 10:48:47 [ERROR] Aborting

071130 10:48:47 [Note] /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete

071130 10:48:47  mysqld ended

After doing:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/mysql/var
sudo chown mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql/var

The output was:

071130 10:50:08  mysqld started
071130 10:50:08 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/mysql/var/ is case insensitive
InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist:
InnoDB: a new database to be created!
071130 10:50:08  InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
071130 10:50:08  InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile0 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
071130 10:50:08  InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile1 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created
InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables
InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created
071130 10:50:08  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 0
071130 10:50:08 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
071130 10:50:08  mysqld ended

Which made me realise that this is really a case of user error; failure to read the INSTALL documentation. It’s been too long since I’ve done a clean MySQL install. What I really needed to do was:

cd /usr/local/mysql
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql .
sudo -u mysql bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
sudo chown -R root:wheel .
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql var

Now things work on starting the server:

sudo -u mysql -b mysqld_safe

For more notes on installing MySQL on Leopard, see:

Install and update RubyGems

sudo gem install rspec
sudo gem install fastri
sudo gem install ZenTest
sudo gem install rails
sudo gem install mongrel
sudo gem install haml
sudo gem install walrus
sudo gem install ruby-debug
sudo gem install rcov
fastri-server -b

JUnit

wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/junit/junit4.4.zip
unzip junit4.4.zip
sudo mv junit4.4 /usr/local
cd /usr/local
sudo ln -s junit4.4 junit
cd junit
sudo ln -s junit-4.4.jar junit.jar
export CLASSPATH="/usr/local/junit/junit.jar:/usr/local/junit"
java org.junit.runner.JUnitCore org.junit.tests.AllTests

ANTLR

ANTLR no longer builds under Leopard:

BUILD FAILED
/Users/wincent/trabajo/vendor/ANTLR/antlr-3.0.1/build.xml:102: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/Users/wincent/trabajo/vendor/ANTLR/antlr-3.0.1/build.xml:55: Problem: failed to create task or type antlr
Cause: the class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ANTLR was not found.
        This looks like one of Ant's optional components.
Action: Check that the appropriate optional JAR exists in
        -/usr/share/ant/lib
        -/Users/wincent/.ant/lib
        -a directory added on the command line with the -lib argument

Diagnosis:

ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on September 23 2007

Inspection reveal the system has an ant-antlr-1.7.0.pom, but no ant-antlr.jar:

wget http://ftp.udc.es/apache-dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.7.0-bin.tar.bz2
tar xjvf apache-ant-1.7.0-bin.tar.bz2
sudo cp apache-ant-1.7.0/lib/ant-antlr.jar /usr/share/ant/lib/

After that it builds fine.