Cannot run DK 8.4 (macOS 14.5 (Sonoma)/M2 Pro Mac Mini)

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

The external mysql/mariadb binaries/scripts are included in the MacOS
package and are patched to be relocated somewhere in the Mac computer
at install time. It's explained in the build script :

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/blob/master/project/bundles/macports/04-build-installer.sh?ref_type=heads#L444

and more specifically here :

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/blob/master/project/bundles/macports/04-build-installer.sh?ref_type=heads#L540

Without this kind of changes, the binaries cannot find the
dependencies at run time and all crash. For the scripts, the path is
hardcoded in base macports install, so all paths must be relative,
else this does not work.

Yes, it's a puzzle, but it's how the Mac bundle requires it to work. I
tried with HomeBrew to see if the rules are better, but it's more and
less a black hole : all installed packages are exploded on the left
and on the right in small parts without the way to apply variant
installation. Macports is certainly not the best package manager, but
homebrew is so far behind compared.

Another stuff is the Qt framework frozen to Qt 5.15.12 under Macports.
This is problematic as the maintainer has not worked on it for a
while. The Qt6 which is the future especially to port on the Silicon
architecture is frozen too on the 6.4.2. And nothing changes for the
moment. So the MacOS always compiles on my Macbook pro 2015 Intel,
even if another Macbook pro M1 is on the table...

Voilà for the technical points about packaging under MacOS.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 24 juil. 2024 à 07:47, gz01 at iinet <gazola01 at iinet.net.au> a écrit :
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> I’ve attached text trace of an installed DK 8.4 debug pkg launching (clean install, empty database folder, MySQL internal setting).
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> DK 7.9 finds 3 binary files (mysql_install_db, mysqladmin & mysqld) installed in the DK app's package contents.
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> At launch, DK 8.4 unsuccessfully searches in 4 potential locations for each of 4 binary files (mariadbd, mariadb-admin, mariadb-upgrade & mariadb-install-db).
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> My query… why are DK 8.4’s required binaries missing from its package contents (unlike DK 7.9), or else from the /opt folder?
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> Regards,
> Gary
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