My name is Brian Whitman. I am a lapsed scientist and sound artist currently co-founder/CTO at The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company in Somerville, MA. As I work on various scaling and media search problems with detours into art projects I'll be posting details here in the hopes that I can learn from others. I'd always like to hear from you if you are working on similar things.
I hate MySQL but I have some … employees … who think it’s a perfectly fine solution when you don’t want to boot a Solr server. Savages. Anyway, of course I expected the MySQLdb connector in Python to totally break and it did not disappoint. You’re dealing with a 64-bit version of Python now and a computer that gets confused as to its architecture (why does /usr/bin/arch return i386 when gcc outputs x86_64 by default?)
Here’s what you do:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"
