Usually the process is pretty easy. If you have MacPorts, and if you don’t, I recommend you get it, you just type sudo port install couchdb.
With Snow Leopard, this installation is a bit broken. The port install works, but then you get an exception, something like Trace/BPT trap. It’s not really due to CouchDB, but rather one of its dependencies, SpiderMonkey (Mozilla’s embeddable JS engine written in C).
So here is a simple solution…
sudo port install couchdb sudo port uninstall -f spidermonkey cd /tmp curl -O http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.7.0.tar.gz curl -O http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang/spidermonkey/files/patch-jsprf.c tar xvzf js-1.7.0.tar.gz cd js/src patch -p0 -i ../../patch-jsprf.c make -f Makefile.ref sudo su JS_DIST=/usr/local/spidermonkey make -f Makefile.ref export exit sudo ranlib /usr/local/spidermonkey/lib/libjs.a # if you get an error here, ignore it sudo ln -s /usr/local/spidermonkey/include /usr/local/include/js sudo ln -s /usr/local/spidermonkey/lib/libjs.dylib /usr/local/lib/libjs.dylib # If you're feeling saucey, the js shell can be useful for quick syntax checking and the like. sudo ln -s /usr/local/spidermonkey/bin/js /usr/local/bin/js
That’s it, you should be able to do sudo couchdb and it should run startup fine.
Let me know if you find any issues during this install and/or after.
