x86_64 build for Leopard?

[Ben Mitchell]

Trying to "get everything working again" after upgrading my Mac to Leopard over the weekend. Currently blocked on MySQL.

The root of the problem is that in Leopard, httpd is shipped as a Universal Binary including x86_64, which is how most modern Macs will invoke it. So anything that wants to link through to something in Apache has to support x86_64 too. Compiling the Apache extensions to support x86_64 (mod_python, for example) was tricky but I got past it. However:

mod_python in 64-bit requires Python in 64-bit
Easy: supported by Apple)

Python in 64-bit requires MySQLdb (pyton DBI lib) in 64-bit
Hard: Compile flags are trivial, but won't link. OSX dists of MySQL aren't x86_64

In fairness, all the current OSX MySQL dists are 10.4, so I'm kinda playing with fire by using them, but whatever.

So now I need to get a working build of MySQL that's x86_64 compliant. I'm happy to build from source, but I don't have it in me right now to slog through the very complicated set of build options for MySQL and figure out how to get what I need. Does anyone have a set of good build instructions to get a 64-bit Intel version of MySQL built for OSX?

Alternatively, is it likely the there'll be a packaged 10.5 MySQL dist available in the next couple of days?

Thanks,

-Ben