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 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.

yes (now that you remind me, I recall that this is like rpath, but
unlike - cannot have multiple install-name's).

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

thanks - changed to

  --enable-signed-char    compile using signed Boolean's in term.h

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