It's not really clear what leads you to suspect corruption in the first instance. Perhaps we might start with how you get to that conclusion and work out a shared understanding of the problem on that basis?
On 9 Mar 2011, at 18:54, David Gentry wrote: > Ryan, > > I did not mean to imply that the MacPorts file, mysqld, is corrupt. Somehow > it is getting corrupted on my system, and I intend to find out how. I did > not know that every system will treat mysqld differently. That is good to > know. However, that information just adds to the mystery. My system is a > bread and butter Mac OS X version 10.6.6. > > The reason I asked for the file contents, such as a text file, is that if I > get the executable file my system might mess it up. > > I will continue to pursue other avenues to solve the mystery of why my system > corrupts the MacPorts mysqld. As I have more information, I will pass it on > to the email list. It might help someone. > > From what I have learned, at this point I doubt that the MacPorts wiki is out > of date. > > David > > On Mar 9, 2011, at 12:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > On Mar 8, 2011, at 19:51, David Gentry wrote: > >> My Mac appears to corrupt the mysqld file whenever I download mysql5 and >> mysql5-server from MacPorts. I would very much like to see a current copy >> of the contents of mysqld. Maybe that way I can determine what my Mac is >> doing to mysqld. Could someone please send me a copy of the contents of >> mysqld? > > I can 100% assure you that if MacPorts extracts the downloaded file (and then > patches, configures, builds, destroots, and installs it), it is not corrupt. > MacPorts includes checksums on all distfiles and will not proceed if the file > you downloaded is not exactly byte-for-byte the same file that I (in the case > of the mysql ports) verified works correctly. > > mysqld is a compiled program, and how it is compiled depends on your > operating system version and processor architecture. So getting one from > someone else won't necessarily get you something that works on your system. > > From what you've written on this topic before, I have no reason so far to > believe there is a fault in the mysqld program particularly. It's certainly > possible our instructions in the wiki have gone out of date; I have not tried > to follow them in a long time. > > > > > David J. Gentry > President > Good Things -- Small Packages, LLC > 205-637-8000 > dgen...@localbusinesswebsites.com > www.localbusinesswebsites.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
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