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Re: Relocatable packages, once again


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: Relocatable packages, once again
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:59:28 +0100
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209)

> I have noticed that discussions about relocatability occured in the far
> 2003. Why didn't relocatability maid its way into GTK+ and other
> autotools packages? Isn't it essential to make a "normal" program?

It is not easy.  In GNU Smalltalk, for example, on Mac OS X I only make
the package relocatable if --disable-shared is used.

Properly fixing this would require hacking Apple's install_name_tool
into libtool.

Paolo





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