[ts-gen] Compiling on an OS/X

[Bill Pippin]

Bill,

With respect to the exception thrown during startup, complaining about
an inadequate sql isolation level:

> [lisa:~/trading-shim/shim-071228] wlloyd% ./shim --data
> terminate called after throwing an instance of  
> 'TradingShimDaemon1_0::TradingException::isolation_must_be_serial'
> Abort

The isolation level of the mysql database must be set to serializable; in
the docs, under Database Creation->Set the Dbms Isolation Level, at:

http://www.trading-shim.org/doc/ [currently drills to:]
http://www.trading-shim.org/doc/node36.html

you'll find, in part: 

> For safe operation, the shim program requires that the sql server run
> in ANSI mode, that is for mysql that the sql isolation level be changed
> from the default and oxymoronic level of REPEATABLE-READ to the
> safer level of SERIALIZABLE in order to prevent phantom reads.

> This is necessary to ensure that transactions are ACID, that is atomic,
> consistent, isolated, and durable.  The trading-shim checks for this
> property, and, by design, will not start without it.

The docs conclude by suggesting that, in order to change the sql isolation
level, you apply the following patch [occurring also as sql/mysql.iso.patch]
to your my.cnf file.

*** my.cnf-OLD  2007-04-20 16:10:13.000000000 -0400
--- my.cnf      2007-04-20 16:10:13.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 9,14 ****
--- 9,18 ----
  user=mysql
  basedir=/var/lib

+ [mysqld]
+ transaction-isolation = SERIALIZABLE
+
+
  [mysqld_safe]
  log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
  pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

If you apply the patch and restart the mysql server, the trading shim
should then be able to connect to the database properly.

Thanks,

Bill Pippin