I will review this.

-Kyle

On 1/23/14 6:31 AM, "Michael Ferguson" <[email protected]> wrote:

>With such a beautiful commit message, who needs to see the patch?
>Here it is. (Yes, I just forgot to include it).
>
>Thanks,
>
>-michael
>
>On 01/23/2014 09:29 AM, Michael Ferguson wrote:
>> Fix RE2 builds and tests on Mac OS X Mavericks
>>
>> Even after upgrading RE2 to the latest version which addresses
>> some issues with Mac OS X, I was having trouble linking the C++
>> test programs with RE2 - and I believe that .chpl programs
>> using RE2 would not compile either. The source of the problem
>> was three-fold:
>>    1) Mac OS X does not support static linking of executables
>>       (although it can link with a static library), so using the
>>       --static flag in the tests is not an option.
>>    2) The RE2 build/install process leaves a partial pathname
>>       to the .so encoded in the .so; so that when you link with
>>       that binary it would look for the re2.so in an obj/ directory.
>>       Because of this partial pathname, the usual rpath linker
>>       flag was not enabling the loader to find the required library.
>>    3) When dynamically linking, the list of exported symbols
>>       did not include some that earlier patches to RE2 (to make
>>       it work on channels) added.
>>
>> To fix these problems, this patch:
>>    1) Adjusts the C++ language Regexp tests to not use
>>    --static on Mac OS X
>>
>>    2) Fixes the RE2 Makefile to update the pathname
>>    in the .so to the absolute destination pathname using
>>    the tool install_name_tool if it exists
>>
>>    3) Adds the missing symbols to libre2.symbols and
>>    libre2.symbols.darwin.
>>
>> This version passes test/regexp on Linux and has minimal
>> changes from the one that worked for me with Mac OS X Mavericks.
>>


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