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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> 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_.

Thanks - I don't recall seeing that (though it's possible that it was
added more recently than when I started using $DESTDIR - in 1996)

> 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.

I see (I see what I'll be working on tomorrow ;-)

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

I was aware of that (thanks)

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