Want to play with PowerDNS? On a Mac? You’ll need to do something like this. Make sure you read all the way to the end before continuing.
1. Download boost from sourceforge. The link for the version I used, 1.39.0, is here.
2. Extract the file somewhere. Mine was just in downloads.
3. Download and extract the source (at the top) of PowerDNS. I used version 2.9.22, from here.
4. navigate to the PowerDNS directory and execute the following commands. Change the reference to MySQL to something relevant to your local copy:
$ CXXFLAGS=-I/Users/sho/Downloads/boost_1_39_0 ./configure --with-mysql-includes=/usr/local/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686/include $ make $ sudo make install
That’s it! Built and installed perfectly. Now run pdns_server, and watch it fail with Cannot create semaphore: Function not implemented, because OSX is not fully POSIX compliant. Now wasn’t that a great way to waste time? I certainly thought so. Told you to read all the way to the end.