Enabling MySQL on Mac

[Mark]

I'm trying to enable Gnucash 2.4.0 to work with MySQL on my Macbook Pro 
(OS 10.6.6). Here's what I've done so far:

1. Installed Gnucash from the .dmg download. It opens just fine.

2. The Gnucash OSX Readmestates: "The only libdbi module included is for 
SQLite. If you need either the MySQL or Postgresql modules, you will 
have to build them yourself and install them into 
Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd."
     I had no idea what that meant, but after a little research I tried 
installing Fink's libdbi-drivers-mysqlpackage. After that install, I 
looked for a file named 'libdbdmysql.so' on my system, because I thought 
that was the file that needed to end up in the 
Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbddirectory -- but I couldn't find 
that file anywhere. So I...

3. Downloaded the libdbi-driverssource from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdbi-drivers/files/and installed that. 
For the configurestage, I typed ./configure --with-mysql 
--with-mysql-dir; I specified no options for the makeor make 
installstages. For some reason I can't recall, in order to get the 
install to work, I had to create a symlink of /sw/lib/dbdin 
/usr/local/lib/. Three files named 'libdbdmysql' are in that 
dbddirectory: 'libdbdmysql.so','libdbdmysql.a' and'libdbdmysql.la'.

4. I created a symlink of libdbdmysql.soin 
Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd. I started up Gnucash with my old 
.xml file; clicked File: Save As...; and tried to select 'mysql'. But 
the only two options are still 'xml' and 'sqlite'. Tried deleting the 
soft symlink and created a hard symlink instead. No effect.

As you can probably tell, I don't really know what I'm doing (I used a 
"how to build from source" tutorial on the web to install 
libdbi-drivers). I can't found any instructions anywhere for how to do 
what the Gnucash OSX Readme file tells me I have to do in order to use a 
MySQL backend for Gnucash on the Mac. Can anyone help with this?

- Mark