This text is the section about OS X Yosemite (which also works for macOS Sierra) from https://docs.basho.com/riak/kv/2.1.4/using/performance/open-files-limit/#mac-os-x
The last time i visited this link it was dead (403), so I cloned it here from the latest snapshot in Archive.org's Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20170523131633/https://docs.basho.com/riak/kv/2.1.4/using/performance/open-files-limit/
| # Compile PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions | |
| cd /usr/local/src | |
| curl -O ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk//pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.32.tar.gz | |
| tar -xvzf pcre-8.32.tar.gz | |
| cd pcre-8.32 | |
| ./configure | |
| make | |
| sudo make install | |
| # Compile Autoconf |
| #!/usr/bin/env sh | |
| ## | |
| # This is script with usefull tips taken from: | |
| # https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx | |
| # | |
| # install it: | |
| # curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh | |
| # |