"J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir at imca-cat.org> writes: > On 6/30/15 4:29 PM, Nate Eagleson wrote: >> +# Mac OS X 10.6 has a built-in libutil.dylib that prevents ld from >> +# picking up notmuch's libutil.a. The best way to prefer our local >> +# libutil.a is to specify it via absolute path, which should work on >> +# all supported OSes. >> +LIBUTIL_PATH=${srcdir}/util/libutil.a > > Hi, Nate. > > I think it would be better to make the above comment not specific to OS > X, but instead just refer to "systems that have a built-in util library" > or similar. For example, NetBSD has a built-in util library [1]. I > don't have access to a FreeBSD system, but it looks like FreeBSD might > have a built-in util library too [2]. > > Similarly for the one-line commit summary since this change is not > specific to OS X. > > Regards, > > Lewis > > [1] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?libutil++NetBSD-current > [2] http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libutil/Makefile?view=markup
Good point. I'll update that. -Nate