Upgrading MySQL on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server
Out of the box, Mac OS X Server 10.6 (Snow Leopard) includes MySQL 5.x. However, the libraries and include files required to install other MySQL-aware software such as Perl’s DBD::mysql or the Ruby gem are not included in the server distribution; Apple has made no secret of this fact. MySQL’s website does have a 64-bit pre-compiled version of their server software for Mac OS X, however, they do not have a universal binary version like that which is included in the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server distribution. So if you need both a 32-bit and 64-bit version of the MySQL software you’ll have no choice but to build it yourself. Fortunately this is fairly straight forward to do.
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