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Finally got SVN going…

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I finally got svn working. So the “Code” tab on the title bar now works.

This is mainly thanks to this article on Apple’s developer website. It doesn’t seem to have any wrong data, even though it’s for 10.5.

I’ve updated the few links on my site, as well as the InstallRRD script I posted yesterday to reflect the change in location for these files.

Now if I could just get a resume posted, all the above links work be “valid”. Maybe in a week or two.

Installing RRDTool 1.4 in Snow Leopard (Server) 10.6

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Wanting to get some info on mail traffic on our mail server, I wanted to get mailgraph installed and functioning on our server. While there are a few sources of info on the web on getting RRDTool installed in 10.6, one of them only deals with RRDTool 1.2, and the other is in Japanese, though it does cover RRDTool 1.4.2.

While I thought I would take the time to write up an article on how to install RRDTool 1.4.2 on 10.6, I lost interest somewhat, so I’ve just made up a basic script to install it for you. The only requirement is to install Xcode 3.2.1, and you’ll want to `sudo su -` before running the script. It will make a src directory in whatever path you run it in, download all the source, and compile it. It will log all the output to a file “build.log” in your current directory. By default, it installs everything in /usr/local. If you want to change that, you’ll need to modify the first few lines in the script.

Feel free to use, and if you want to see what it’s doing, just take a look at the script.

RRDTool install script: here

Good luck!

PHP 5.3.1 compiled from source on 10.6.2 Server

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UPDATE: Please take a look at this. The below is pretty outdated at this point since Apple shipped PHP 5.3.4 with 10.6.8, and 10.7.0 shipped with 5.3.6. Their script is much spiffier than mine. Thanks!

Apple unfortunately forgot to include freetype support in GD with their stock version of PHP 5.3.0 in 10.6 Server at least up to 10.6.2.

So, there’s some info online about compiling freetype into GD in 10.6, but it doesn’t specifically address 10.6 Server, and it references downloading the PHP 5.3.0 source from Apple’s servers, rather than directly from php.net.

So, here’s the info.

  1. Create a directory for the src.
    sudo mkdir /src
  2. Chown that over to yourself.
    sudo chown username /src
  3. Change into that directory.
    cd /src
  4. Create pcre directory.
    mkdir pcre
  5. Change into pcre directory.
    cd pcre
  6. Download pcre source.
    curl ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.01.tar.gz -O
  7. Download php5.3.1 source.
    curl http://us3.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.1.tar.gz -O
  8. Download libjpeg-v7 source.
    curl http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz -O
  9. Untar all of the above.
    find *.tar.gz -exec tar xfvz {} \;
  10. Change into pcre source directory.
    cd pcre-8.01
  11. configure pcre.
    ./configure --disable-shared --enable-static
  12. Make, and install pcre.
    make && make install DESTDIR=/src/pcre/pcre-local
  13. Change into the jpeg directory.
    cd ../../jpeg-7
  14. Copy some config files into the current directory.
    cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.sub .; cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess .
  15. Config libjpeg.
    export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
    CFLAGS="-arch x86_64" \
    CXXFLAGS="-arch x86_64" \
    LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64" \
    ./configure --enable-shared
  16. Make, and Make install.
    make; sudo make install
  17. Change directory into PHP source folder.
    cd ../php-5.3.1
  18. Modify line 186 of ./ext/iconv/iconv.c and change #define iconv libiconv to #define iconv iconv
  19. Configure PHP.
    MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
    CFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp"
    CCFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe"
    CXXFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe"
    LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -bind_at_load"
    export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS CCFLAGS MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
    ./configure --prefix=/usr \
    --mandir=/usr/share/man \
    --infodir=/usr/share/info \
    --disable-dependency-tracking \
    --sysconfdir=/private/etc \
    --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \
    --enable-cli \
    --with-config-file-path=/etc \
    --with-libxml-dir=/usr \
    --with-openssl=/usr \
    --with-kerberos=/usr \
    --with-zlib=/usr \
    --enable-bcmath \
    --with-bz2=/usr \
    --enable-calendar \
    --with-curl=/usr \
    --enable-exif \
    --enable-ftp \
    --with-gd \
    --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib \
    --with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6 \
    --with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11R6 \
    --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 \
    --with-ldap=/usr \
    --with-ldap-sasl=/usr \
    --enable-mbstring \
    --enable-mbregex \
    --with-mysql=mysqlnd \
    --with-mysqli=mysqlnd \
    --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd \
    --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql/mysql.sock \
    --with-iodbc=/usr \
    --enable-shmop \
    --with-snmp=/usr \
    --enable-soap \
    --enable-sockets \
    --enable-sysvmsg \
    --enable-sysvsem \
    --enable-sysvshm \
    --with-xmlrpc \
    --with-iconv-dir=/usr \
    --with-xsl=/usr \
    --with-pcre-regex=/src/pcre/pcre-local/usr/local
  20. Make PHP.
    export EXTRA_CFLAGS="-lresolv"; make
  21. Backup your php.ini
    sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini /private/etc/php.ini.bak
  22. Install new PHP
    sudo make install
  23. Restore php.ini, and restart apache.
    sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.bak /private/etc/php.ini; sudo apachectl graceful

All and all, on a new mac mini server, this took about 20-30 minutes. And I now have a working PHP 5.3.1 install, and freetype now works with GD (allowing me to put the captcha back on my contact form under “About”. Good luck!

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