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Installing Trac on Mac OS X, without Fink

I have found that trying to install Trac and all its dependencies, notably subversion and the swig bindings, on OS X 10.3 without using ​Fink, to be surprisingly difficult and full of gotchas. With some perseverance, and considerable help from kind folks on the trac and subversion users lists, I have succeeded. In the hope that this may help others, I am documenting here what has worked for me.

This procedure intentionally specifies that subversion be installed without Berkeley DB, thus svn repositories will be only ​FSFS, as per current recommendation.

The details here are quite tightly bound to the specific version of each package installed, and therefore are likely to change quickly. Please take this into account, and do not follow them blindly! Also, if you discover any incorrectness, or obsoleteness, please be so kind as to either update this document yourself, or just contact me on mario@… about it.

You should allow yourself a comfortable hour or so for this installation procedure… and that is real quick and easy when compared to the few days of frustration I spent figuring out why things were not working, due to incomplete, inconistent, or just contradictory documentation that is currently available!

Requirements

Preliminaries

no fink

Preferably you do not have fink in your environment, to avoid that the various configure scripts pick up libraries to link to from under fink. So, make sure that your env path does not include any /sw dirs, and that the file /sw/bin/init.sh is not being executed from anywhere in your .profile.

clean-up

Note: you may prefer to do this clean-up step only if a first installation attempt fails.

Clean out any previously installed libs and executables prior to doing the installation process. The files to remove (or rename) are: 

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/apr
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libneon*
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libsvn*
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/neon.pc
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/swig 
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/neon-config
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/svn*
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/subversion-1

Plus, if you happen to have any previous installations of the swig svn python bindings in your site packages, then remove (or rename) them: 

sudo rm -rf /Library/Python/2.3/libsvn
sudo rm -rf /Library/Python/2.3/svn

Installing the Packages

I will only describe the essentials that are particular to OS X, and to installing without Fink. Please substitute any steps not detailed here with their generic equivalents in TracInstall.

neon

In theory you should not need to install this separately, but doing so may avoid some confusing warnings when installing subversion, due to missing entry for darwin in the neon configure script (the neon currently bundled with subversion). See this ​note on the svn users list as to why we may want to install neon separately.

swig

The latest version of swig (1.3.24) will not work! You need version 1.3.21, as stated in this ​message on the svn users list: "subversion 1.1.x currently REQUIRES swig ≥ 1.3.19 and ⇐ 1.3.21. Swig1.3.24 is _not_ supported."

  • Get source tarball for 1.3.21 from (​http://www.swig.org/)
  • See the generalized ​INSTALL procedure, from which highlights are extracted below: 
    cd <swig-distribution-top-dir>
./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python
make 
make runtime
sudo make install
sudo make install-runtime

subversion

  • Get latest source tarball from (​http://subversion.tigris.org/) 
    cd <subversion-distribution-top-dir>
./configure --without-berkeley-db --enable-swig-bindings=python PYTHON=/usr/bin/python
make
sudo make install

swig svn python bindings

cd <subversion-distribution-top-dir>
make swig-py
sudo make install-swig-py
echo /usr/local/lib/svn-python > /Library/Python/2.3/svn-python.pth

sqlite, pysqlite

clearsilver

  • Get latest source tarball from (​http://www.clearsilver.net/)
  • Installation procedure slightly different from those given by TracOnOsx 
    cd <clearsilver-distribution-top-dir>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-python=/usr/bin/python --disable-ruby
make
# >>> here modify first line of scripts/document.py to use same python 
sudo make install

docutils

trac

  • Standard distutils installation
  • Will put executables and shared files in: 
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/trac*
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/share/trac/*

For setting up access from Apache, see TracInstall, TracOnOsx, TracMultipleProjects.

Creating a trac environment

First choose a location for your subversion repository, e.g. /var/svn/test, and one for you trac environment, e.g. /var/trac/test.

svn repository

Specifying fs-type is actually not necessary, as we have built without bdb, thus making fsfs the default backend file system. 

svnadmin create --fs-type=fsfs /var/svn/test

To make sure the repository is ok, play with it a little: 

cd /tmp
mkdir proj
cd proj
mkdir trunk branches tags 
svn import proj file:///var/svn/test -m "Import First"
rm -r proj
svn co file:///var/svn/test proj
cd proj
svn update

trac environment

trac-admin /var/trac/test initenv

You may need to manage access rights on the trac env directory tree. This may be done by first creating a unix group dedicated to this trac project, e.g. trac, and assigning the various users to this group. The apache web user should be one of these. If you need a nice description of how to do this, look at the ​Apple CVSOverview (then search for the text "create a new group" or "NetInfo Manager").

Your trac-admin binary may not be in your search path - if trac-admin isn't found, try: 

sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/trac* /usr/local/bin

to create links to them in /usr/local/bin.

To apply chgrp and chmod recursively, you may do: 

cd /var/trac/test
find . -name "*" -exec chgrp trac {} \; -ls
find . -name "*" -exec chmod g+sw {} \; -ls

For further trac configuration, see TracGuide.

mario@…

See also: TracGuide, TracInstall, TracOnOsx, TracInstallPlatforms

Note: See TracWiki for help on using the wiki.