Incorrect path to libmysqlclient.15.dylib on Mac OS X binary package

[Graeme Mathieson]

I'm using the binary package you have kindly provided for Mac OS X, here:

    http://mirror.ourdelta.org/bin/mysql.10-ourdelta-sail-5.0.86-osx10.5-x86-oqgraph.dmg

Every time I've installed it afresh on a new system, when I try and use MySQL, I get the following error:

$ mysql -uroot
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.15.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
  Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap

I've been solving the problem with the following:

    cd /usr/local/mysql/lib && ln -s . mysql

which is fine an' all, but I thought I should share in case it's stumping anyone else. Might be worth respinning the dmg to contain that symlink, or maybe there's a proper way to fix it. ;-)

Cheers,

Graeme.

[Toby Thain (qu1j0t3)]

This is an upstream bug (exists in recent MySQL source builds as well).

It's also referenced in this old report http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=29580 and many blog posts.

Another workaround is to change the library name in the object file, as described here, for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/517976/how-to-fix-dlopen-library-ruby-gems-1-8-gems-mysql-2-7-lib-mysql-bundle-9-li