Question

I run Mac OS X 10.5.8. I would like to be able to run couchdb but I am having some difficulty and I wonder if anyone can help. I would rather not use homebrew unless its the only way and its known to work as I use mac ports for most of my installs at the momemnt. If its the only way, then so be it.

I have tried several different ways to do it and I am afraid I don’t have all the error messages from them.

port install couchdb

ran, but didn’t appear to run a couchdb demon.

port install couchdb-devel

install crashed complaining that erlang may not have been built with ssl

The couchbase server binaries (1.1.1 and 1.1) give an error:

unknown required load command 0x80000022

Downloading apache-couchdb-1.0.2 source and running

./configure
make

Produces a binary that appears not to run properly:

sh-3.2# ./bin/couchdb  
{"init terminating in do_boot",{undef,[{couch,start,[]},{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
init terminating in do_boot ()

which I assume is not the correct behaviour. I wanted to test before I did a make install, which may have been the wrong thing to do.

Does anyone have known to work solution or can anyone suggest anything?

Answer 1

Strongly recommend installing homebrew and using that to install couchdb. Homebrew is a ‘package manager’ that really is a joy to use. Once installed, brew install couchdb is enough to get a working installation.

EDIT: I should have re-read your question; I missed your mention of homebrew. Feel free to ignore this answer.

A quick look at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_OSX suggests that sudo port install erlang +ssl then sudo port install couchdb might help? It would seem that +ssl would force compilation with ssl. Worth a try.