Re: ncurses installation on Mac OS

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> Dear Thomas,
>
> since you applied the following change
>
> Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
>  objects into the install directory.

I have considered making that detail an option (will look/see how to do 
this).  Making it optional would let me make rpath work properly, but
let people build the older configuration...

> a problem surfaced on Mac OS X (whith --disable-libtool, --enable-shared), 
> installed libraries are linked against libraries in build locations,
> not instal locations (as described at
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-January/001342.html)

thanks - will see
> I suspect that DESTDIR in the following configure line breaks things.
>
> MK_SHARED_LIB='${CC} ${CFLAGS} -dynamiclib -install_name 
> ${DESTDIR}${libdir}/`basename address@hidden -compatibility_version ${ABI_VERSION} 
> -current_version ${ABI_VERSION} -o $@'
>
> Since DESTDIR sets temporary location where things are installed before
> being moved to a proper place by package management system, there is
> no reason to include DESTDIR in their install_names (Mac OS analog of rpath).
>
>     Sincerely, Michail

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