Re: build problem related to libtool?

[Axel Wernicke]

Hi,

Am 19.02.2006 um 11:51 schrieb Peter O'Gorman:

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> Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> | Axel Wernicke wrote:
> | | Hi list,
> | |
> | | while trying to build the latest development version of GIMP on  
> OS X  I
> | | got some errors. I tried to solve them with the gimp  
> developers,  but
> | | they told me that my problem is rather related to libtool then  
> to  the
> | | gimp itself. That is why I'd like to ask for your help.
> | | The command that crashes the make is:
>
> The problem is here:
> <http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimp/app/Makefile.am?r1=1.355&r2=1.356>
>
> I think they want to check for gnu binutils to use -rpath  
> $ORIGIN/../lib,
> but I'm not sure. Right now they try to do this for OS != windows.  
> Ick!
>
> To make an app relocatable on Mac OS X, you have to do more work  
> than this.
> You need to link your libraries with an install_name (soname) of
> @executable_path/../lib/libfoo.dylib, by far the easiest thing to  
> do to make
> apps relocatable is to build as normal with -Wl,- 
> headerpad_max_install_names
> ~ in LDFLAGS, then you can fix things to have the @executable_path/  
> bit after
> build using install_name_tool(1).
>
> Not libtool's fault, sorry, now you've got to go back to the gimp  
> developers.

Thanks a lot for the analysis. That was really fast done. Now lets  
see what the GIMP people say :)

Greetings,

Axel

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