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Well if you're a developer you'll be disappointed, it seems apple
screwed up (probably more than once) but wouldn't commit or even
comment on availability or an acceptable compliant solution.
It all started when I installed Leopard and XCode, tried to build a
project that has a mysql library dependancy but it failed to build
citing missing mysql header files.
I check the drive and the header files are nowhere to be found, I
determine the version of the installed mysql and manually install the
header files and go back to building my project but it fails again,
this time citing missing mysql library files.
A once over on the drive concludes the libraries are in fact missing
so at this point I decide to call apple and find out what's going on,
I'm told that the library and header files should be installed so I
check the drive again and also scan all of the installer packages and
the files are not found and confirm this with tech support who also
performed the same scan of all the installer packages.
An apology is offered for the missing files but no commitment or even
a guess when or if apple will be making them available.
Not to worry, I now have the missing files.
After dinner I called up a buddy at apple (they're 4 hours behind),
explained the situation and voiced my complaint at the sheer
stupidity of it all and later last night some generous soul uploads a
tarball of the mysql (complete) installation and a quick call back to
my friend results in the realization that he didn't upload it and
doesn't know who did so I don't know who to thank for the gift.
Based on the file dates I have concluded that to the best of my
knowledge these files are the original (missing) apple files with the
correct architectures.
I'm not sure what they think they are preventing by precluding these
files, but this omission makes development annoying if the basic
dependancies are missing for any reason.
As suggested by my friend, it was probably due to the rush to release
Leopard by the already postponed release date, now it makes me wonder
what other files are missing due to their last minute rush to release.
One other file that might be important is "/sbin/mount_volfs", for
those who know what it is and how to use it, be sad, it's not
available so full custom FS mounting isn't possible because you can't
register the FS for root-level access and after I discussed it with a
couple of other apple employees who were also disappointed in it's
loss, they tried building and adding it but it didn't work due to the
System/Kernel API changes, their looking into a solution because they
use it as well so their might be something released as substitute
whenever it can be resolved.
Don't misunderstand me, you can still work around it to some degree
but the results obtained are not acceptable from a developer
standpoint, I'm not talking about mounting and using it at the client/
user level where full FS manipulation doesn't occur.
I guess I can expect similar surprises as more omitted dependancies
pop up and it makes me think, "a disappointing vendor" that hurts
development if they forget to include dependancies and can't even
comment if they'll ever be made available let alone when they would
be if they did decide to make them available.
