Unable to execute start-spark-shell.sh from Mac

[ramnivas]

After getting a distribution built (see #4), I couldn't get start-spark-shell.sh working from my Mac (due to readlink being not available by default on Mac).

[bin] ./start-spark-shell.sh 
readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
[ERROR] too many jar files in 
[ERROR] please check your installation

Installing greadlink (via brew install coreutils) moved things forward a bit, but met with another error:

[bin] ./start-spark-shell.sh 
[ERROR] too many jar files in /Users/ramnivas/dev/vora/dist/lib
[ERROR] please check your installation

I verified that there is only one file in the lib directory.

For now, I am able to workaround by executing:

$ spark-shell.sh --jars <path to spark-sap-parent-1.3.69-assembly.jar or core-1.3.69.jar>

which seems like what the start-spark-shell.sh does effectively anyway.

[burgerdev]

The workaround is in fact what the script does, should be safe to use. I will have a look into that issue.