Hi folks, I'm trying to move from Apple's Mail.app in favor of offlineimap/notmuch, but I've run into a build failure on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
The failure was reported on this list a few months ago, but no explanation or solution was found: http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2015/020531.html By appending `-Wl,-t` to `FINAL_NOTMUCH_LDFLAGS` in Makefile.local, I got 10.6.8's ld to dump the list of archives and dylibs that are being linked in the failed compile. That list includes `/usr/lib/libutil.dylib`, but not notmuch's built-in `util/libutil.a`. I have not found a sane way to tell 10.6.8's ld to prefer libutil.a over libutil.dylib. My first thought was that there should be an option to prefer archives over dylibs, but that does not seem to exist in 10.6.8's version of ld. Instead, people are recommending absolute paths when you need to link an archive file in preference to existing dylibs: http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2003/Sep/msg00008.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/844819/how-to-static-link-on-os-x As a simple test, I hardcoded an absolute path to libutil in FINAL_NOTMUCH_LDFLAGS, and the compile succeeded. So, it seems like getting the path to the Makefile's parent directory and using it to specify an absolute path to libutil.a would address this issue without introducing new ones. Does this sound like a sane solution? Would a patch to do this be accepted? If not, what would be a better way to solve this? Thanks. -Nate
