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Your MacOSX dev tools need to be current.
[ Posted by Dan on June 03, 2002 | 9 Comments ]

Even MacOSX users can install and run mod_mp3 (which is an MP3 server mod that piggy backs on the Apache server). The maintainers even make OSX specific downloads available, but they are, of course, several versions behind (and are pre-compiled). So, when trying to compile the current version for OSX (with better ID3 support), I ran into this error...

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib load command 6 unknown cmd field

That error is suggested to be a problem with my DevTools installation, and more to the point, old DevTools on an up to date OSX installation. Now, why would I have old DevTools on top of the latest version of the OS? Well, I bought OSX 10.0 which came with the 10.0 (zero!) DevTools. System upgrades do NOT include the tools update. You have to download it separately from Apple, which can be done pretty simply...

Go to http://connect.apple.com
Register for the free account
click "Download Software" (on the left)
click "Mac OS X" (on the left)
click the appropriate Download button

The file I need is over 200 megs in size, and I don't even know if it's going help me successfully compile mod_mp3 version 0.37. The things we do to get software installed can be pretty damn silly. And configuring it can be even worse.

I was having the exact problem. I downloaded the latest version of the Dev tools from Apple, and installed that (20 min download on Cable, 25 min. install). After rebooting, my "make" command worked just fine. Apple should give developers some sort of way to keep updated with the tool revs!

-Posted by pmolaro on June 6, 2002 12:34 AM

For the record, I managed to get the new dev tools installed, and my compile went went and am now using the latest rev of mod_mp3 on my tiBook ;)

-Posted by Dan on June 7, 2002 01:33 PM

agree with pmolaro, i have Dec 2001 DevTools installed on my 10.1.4 tiBook and can't get the
make command to work. now downloading the new tools for installation - thanks for the word up.

-Posted by scot on July 25, 2002 07:22 PM

unable to download Dev Tools from connect.apple. Get a denied access message.

-Posted by Buzz on December 22, 2002 06:20 PM

...times like these when i thank my lucky stars i have dsl...

-Posted by Lenore Snell on February 8, 2003 04:03 AM

Thanks! I'd been having a problem with some CPAN perl modules not installing correctly. Searched google with the error message and I think this is going to take care of it.

-Posted by doofus on March 6, 2003 11:07 PM

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