Russell,

Welcome to the awesomeness of multi-architecture binaries :)

The key here is to make sure that Erlang, ICU, and couch_icu_driver
are all compiled with the same architecture. 10.6 defaults to trying
to link things as x86_64 where as Erlang will default to i386 if you
don't use the --enable-darwin-64bit flag. And the ICU configure has a
screwy thing in its configure system that prevents x86_64 compilation.
There's a patch in the Homebrew [1] formula [2]. Once those are both
built as x86_64 you should be able to get on swimmingly.

HTH,
Paul Davis

[1] http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
[2] http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/icu4c.rb

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been following the instructions at 
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_OSX to install couchdb from 
> source. I have a MacBook Pro from 2007-2008 (pre unibody) running snow 
> leopard. When I run "arch" I get i386.
>
> I am able to build everything following the instructions but when I start 
> couchdb I get the following crash report
>
> =INFO REPORT==== 12-Feb-2010::10:58:58 ===
>    application: couch
>    exited: {bad_return,{{couch_app,start,
>                                    [normal,
>                                     
> ["/Users/russell/couchdb/etc/couchdb/default.ini",
>                                      
> "/Users/russell/couchdb/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]},
>                         
> {'EXIT',"dlopen(/Users/russell/couchdb/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/couch-0.11.0b909351/priv/lib/couch_icu_driver.so,
>  2): no suitable image found.  Did 
> find:\n\t/Users/russell/couchdb/lib/couchdb/erlang/lib/couch-0.11.0b909351/priv/lib/couch_icu_driver.so:
>  mach-o, but wrong architecture"}}}
>    type: temporary
>
>
>
> I guessed that maybe the
>
>
> /runConfigureICU MacOSX --with-library-bits=64 --disable-samples 
> --enable-static # if this fails for you try: ./configure --enable-64bit-libs
>
> was to blame so I tried building icu again without the 64 bit options. I 
> rebuilt couchdb and still had the same error when I tried to run it. In 
> desperation I removed icu and installed MacPorts and asked that to install 
> icu for me. I rebuilt couchdb again and still get the same error when I try 
> to start it.
>
> I googled around a bit. I can't find that exact error to do with couchdb but 
> I have found similar stuff that seems to be mainly people trying to build 32 
> bit code on 64 bit machine.
>
> I'm sort of at a loss. I know I can use CouchDBX (in fact I have done before) 
> but I wanted to see if I could build from source (I guess not ;)) and try a 
> get a bit more control over my environment. I have one deployed website 
> backed by couchdb (on ubuntu) so I thought I'd be better trying to set up a 
> dev env closer to the deployed env.
>
> I know this is not strictly speaking a couchdb issue, but if anyone out there 
> has seen this before or can help I appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Russell
>

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