On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Greg Lewis wrote: >> The $ORIGIN hack seems like the sort of thing which Mac OS X would do >> better; does anyone know the Mac or BSD story here? >> >> The original version of the BSD file omits mention of LD_RUNPATH_EXTRAS, >> while the original version of linux and solaris files has it, so it's >> hard to tell who to ask about the change. > > I seem to recall leaving this out because the MacOS X linker didn't > understand these flags. At that point things were working without them > so I didn't want to spend the time investigating further to see if there > were equivalent flags. Sorry.
No problem; it's clearly just part of the porting process. A comment left behind might have saved a little time (but only a little). Thanks for the clarification, and thanks Mike S. for the pointers to linker docs. -- John P.S. As I googled around for info on Mac linking, I also found these pages helpful: http://www.codeshorts.ca/2007/nov/01/leopard-linking-making-relocatable-libraries-movin http://code.google.com/p/sidelight/wiki/RpathSaver https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/dasg/Building+with+shared+libs http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?ApplicationLinking
