Whoops, and double whoops. Sent reply before I started typing.
Forgot about CC, sorry, and that bugs don't automatically forward to the list. Though I must send from a different email address (my list addr) for CC to work.
It's still a problem for 5.4/5.7, but unless someone really cares about fixing it there and moving it to 6.0/6.1 will get it fixed faster, I'd say move it to 6.0/6.1.
Here's a copy of the message, for the list:
I just asked on the Mac OS X-UNIX porting list about this. -install-name is a standard and normal and expected thing to do when creating a Mac dynamic library (the current/compability versions are optional, but a good idea). In fact, versions of libtool back to at least 1.3.x provide this functionality. Mac OS X dynamic libraries use the mach-o format, not the linux elph format, and they expect a full path and name embedded in the library. If one is not provided at build time, the default is embedded as the build location (ie in the source).
The patch has changed yet again. I hope this doesn't become a regular occurrence. Maybe attention should be paid to changing environment variables, and make sure the right ones are used (someone who knows the setup a little better could figure this out). Somewhere along the 6.1 CVS changes, LIB_RUNTIME_DIR changed (or disappeared), so it doesn't refer to the install library directory, and maybe LIB_RUNTIME_DIR wasn't the right choice in the first place.
Currently - this works for both 6.0 and 6.1 CVS - I have:
SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fno-common"
SHLIB_LD="cc -dynamiclib -flat_namespace -compatibility_version \${GRASS_VERSION_MAJOR}.\${GRASS_VERSION_MINOR} -current_version \${GRASS_VERSION_MAJOR}.\${GRASS_VERSION_MINOR} -install_name \${INST_DIR}/lib/lib\${LIB_NAME}\${SHLIB_SUFFIX}"
Note again that Mac OS library versions must only be integers, up to three dot-separated (ie major.minor.release for current, usually major.minor for compatibility). Care should be taken that at least the major and minor versions are just numbers. I left out the release version in the current-version, since in GRASS CVS versions this is a string, not a number. Maybe some variable can be provided to specify an alternate format release version? But that's not critical.
On Jul 23, 2005, at 6:22 AM, Maciek Sieczka via RT wrote:
William
Great that you care to manage your bugreports. But - if you want your comments
to be taken under consideration, please CC grass5@grass.itc.it and Folks who
you think might be helpfull and interested in the issue (delimit emails with
commas). Otherwise it might take infinity till somebody looks again into this
bugreport, epecially that it is assigned to 5.7 area, cause 'reply' and
'comment' in the bugtracker are not forwarded to the list automatically, shame.
Could you forward your remarks where applies?
Shall we change the bug assignation to 6.1?
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