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

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Thomas,

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Michail Vidiassov wrote:
>
> > > > BTW, Mac OS X has no rpath support
> > > > http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-dyld/
> > >
> > > I was aware of that (thanks)
> >
> > 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:

The problem I had in mind is that Apple libtool does not have
-rpath option, it has -install-name to achieve similar effect.

BTW, there is a cut-n-paste error in configure help:
  --enable-signed-char    compile with SIGWINCH handler

             Sincerely, Michail