Re: ncurses 5.6 runs ld directly on file in /usr/lib/, killing system

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Thomas,

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> yes (someone using Mac OS X commented on the issue a few days ago,
> which is part of the changes to make rpath workable).
>
> I made the change more than two months before releasing 5.6,
> and no one noticed this issue...

As far as Mac OS X is concerned, the issue was there at 5.5, it just did not 
surface.

You coded

MK_SHARED_LIB='$(CC) -dynamiclib -install_name $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/`basename 
address@hidden

but, according to

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html

 Also, specifying DESTDIR should not change the operation of the software
 in any way, so _its value should not be included in any file contents_.

Since DESTDIR is used only at install time, the problem struck once you 
started to link when installing. But putting DESTDIR in a build stage 
command was an error in the first place.

BTW, Mac OS X has no rpath support
http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-dyld/


       Sincerely, Michail