Installing CouchDB 0.11 on Mac OS

[Alexandru Popescu ☀ <th...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I've been trying yesterday to install the latest build of CouchDB [1]
on both Mac OS 10.6.2 and 10.5.8, but even if the irc people have been
very helpful all my attempts have finally failed.

Here is briefly what I've tried:

A/ Mac OS 10.6.2.

- adapted Homebrew formula to fetch the latest CouchDB [1]
- attempt to install CouchDB directly from Homebrew. This failed and
the error log was posted [2]
- install only dependencies from Homebrew and attempt a manual install
of CouchDB. This has failed too and the error log was posted here [3]

B/ Mac OS 10.5.8

- adapted Homebrew formulat to fetch the latest CouchDB [1]
- attempt to install CouchDB directly from Homebrew. This has failed
in the configure phase:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/couchdb/0.11.0
--localstatedir=/usr/local/var --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc

checking for curl >= 7.18.0... can't find curl >= 7.18.0
configure: error: Libraryr requirements (curl) not meet

(my system reports libcurl 7.16.3)


I have also checked the CouchDB wiki install notes [4] and an email
thread about some issues with getting CouchDB working [5], but in the
end I couldn't get it to work on either of my systems.

At this moment, I am completely lost as I have no idea on how to move
forward. I would really appreciated if someone could shed some light
on how to get this working.

Many thanks in advance,

:- alex

PS: I've been asked by the guys on irc to perform a lot of different
checks, but I don't remember them all to reproduce them here.

macloki:~ alex$ nm /usr/lib/libcurl.dylib | grep _curl_easy_perform
0002158d T _curl_easy_perform
macloki:~ alex$ nm /opt/local/lib/libcurl.dylib | grep _curl_easy_perform
0001e790 T _curl_easy_perform
macloki:~ alex$ echo $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
<empty>


[1] http://people.apache.org/~nslater/dist/0.11.0/apache-couchdb-0.11.0.tar.gz

[2] http://friendpaste.com/nfvE94i1VsPiwrl8oCHMn

[3] http://friendpaste.com/6eWtE6xNBtHgpssCEJfufh

[4] http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_OSX

[5] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.couchdb.user/6329

Re: Installing CouchDB 0.11 on Mac OS

[Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org>]

Hi Aexandru,

check out the "nightly builds" link on http://janl.github.com/couchdbx/
for a pre-bult binary CouchDB.

Cheers
Jan
--

On 23 Mar 2010, at 02:32, Alexandru Popescu ☀ wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying yesterday to install the latest build of CouchDB [1]
> on both Mac OS 10.6.2 and 10.5.8, but even if the irc people have been
> very helpful all my attempts have finally failed.
> 
> Here is briefly what I've tried:
> 
> A/ Mac OS 10.6.2.
> 
> - adapted Homebrew formula to fetch the latest CouchDB [1]
> - attempt to install CouchDB directly from Homebrew. This failed and
> the error log was posted [2]
> - install only dependencies from Homebrew and attempt a manual install
> of CouchDB. This has failed too and the error log was posted here [3]
> 
> B/ Mac OS 10.5.8
> 
> - adapted Homebrew formulat to fetch the latest CouchDB [1]
> - attempt to install CouchDB directly from Homebrew. This has failed
> in the configure phase:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/couchdb/0.11.0
> --localstatedir=/usr/local/var --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc
> 
> checking for curl >= 7.18.0... can't find curl >= 7.18.0
> configure: error: Libraryr requirements (curl) not meet
> 
> (my system reports libcurl 7.16.3)
> 
> 
> I have also checked the CouchDB wiki install notes [4] and an email
> thread about some issues with getting CouchDB working [5], but in the
> end I couldn't get it to work on either of my systems.
> 
> At this moment, I am completely lost as I have no idea on how to move
> forward. I would really appreciated if someone could shed some light
> on how to get this working.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> :- alex
> 
> PS: I've been asked by the guys on irc to perform a lot of different
> checks, but I don't remember them all to reproduce them here.
> 
> macloki:~ alex$ nm /usr/lib/libcurl.dylib | grep _curl_easy_perform
> 0002158d T _curl_easy_perform
> macloki:~ alex$ nm /opt/local/lib/libcurl.dylib | grep _curl_easy_perform
> 0001e790 T _curl_easy_perform
> macloki:~ alex$ echo $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
> <empty>
> 
> 
> [1] http://people.apache.org/~nslater/dist/0.11.0/apache-couchdb-0.11.0.tar.gz
> 
> [2] http://friendpaste.com/nfvE94i1VsPiwrl8oCHMn
> 
> [3] http://friendpaste.com/6eWtE6xNBtHgpssCEJfufh
> 
> [4] http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_OSX
> 
> [5] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.couchdb.user/6329