Installation steps to install hdfs3 and underlying libhdfs3 on a Mac

mac_install_hdfs3.sh

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# required downloading source of cmakem protobuf, gsasl as well as hdfs3 
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mv ~/Downloads/cmake-3.9.0-rc5.tar.gz . 
tar -zxf cmake-3.9.0-rc5.tar.gz 
cd cmake-3.9.0-rc5
./bootstrap && make
sudo  make install

mv ~/Downloads/protobuf-3.3.0.tar.gz . 
tar -zxf protobuf-3.3.0.tar.gz 
cd protobuf-3.3.0
bash autogen.sh 
./configure && make
sudo make  install 

mv ~/Downloads/gsasl-1.8.0.tar.gz  . 
tar -zxf gsasl-1.8.0.tar.gz 
cd gsasl-1.8.0
./configure && make 
sudo make install 

mv ~/Downloads/pivotalrd-libhdfs3-2.2.31.tar.gz . 
tar -zxf pivotalrd-libhdfs3-2.2.31.tar.gz 
cd pivotalrd-libhdfs3-2.2.31
mkdir build 
cd build
bash ../bootstrap 
make 
sudo make install  # doesnt seem to work

cd ..

sudo cp -r ./dist/include/hdfs /usr/local/include
sudo cp  ./dist/lib/* /usr/local/lib
sudo cp ./dist/lib/pkgconfig/libhdfs3.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

cd ..
virtualenv venv 
. venv/bin/activate 
pip install hdfs3 
vi venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hdfs3/lib.py   # edit libhdfs3.so => libhdfs3.dylib
python 
>>> import hdfs3