Macports Newbie - XServe use

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 23:54, Alex Kac wrote:

> On Apr 5, 2007, at 11:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Have you been able to test your mysql yet to see if it's 64-bit? I  
>> found this document describing how to get mysql to compile 64-bit  
>> (on PowerPC):
>>
>> http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20050705130841426
>>
>> That would imply that it doesn't automatically build 64-bit.
>
> It didn't. No biggie. Its probably not as well tested on OS X anyway.

I had thought that MySQL AB distributed 64-bit binaries, but I see  
now that it's only for 64-bit PowerPC, not for 64-bit Intel.

It might yet be possible to adapt the instructions in the article  
above to build MySQL (and ncurses) 64-bit on Intel but you're  
probably right that not many have tried this yet and you might risk  
the stability of the server. Still, it would be nice to be able to  
use all your memory...