Re: ncurses 5.6 runs ld directly on file in /usr/lib/ ...

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> Dear Thomas,
>
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > > BTW, Mac OS X has no rpath support
> > > http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-dyld/
> >
> > I was aware of that (thanks)
>
> Does it mean that on Mac OS X there is no need to run configure with
> --disable-rpath, since configure does not use rpath on Mac?

yes (disable-rpath should be the default in any case)

> BTW, as far as I able to understand configure, setting
>
> LIB_CREATE='${LIBTOOL} --mode=link ${CC} -rpath ${DESTDIR}${libdir} ..
>
> is not conditional on rpath support being present.

I have a note from last summer that tells me I tried implementing
disable-rpath for the libtool configuration, but found that the
resulting libraries were not installable:

2006/7/22
    I noticed that --disable-rpath does not affect the libtool configuration,
    and tried implementing that.  It didn't work (cannot install the ncurses
    library itself):
        installing ../lib/libncurses.la as /tmp/FOO/usr/lib/libncurses.la
        cd ../lib; /usr/bin/libtool --silent --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 
libncurses.la /tmp/FOO/usr/lib
        /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `.libs/libncurses.lai': No such file or 
directory
        make: *** [install] Error 1

That is, it _might_ be doable, but I didn't get there on the first try.

--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net