Hi everyone!
I'm working on porting GNOME and other GNU software to Mac OS X /
Darwin. (Darwin is the name of the BSD core of Mac OS X, it's
available separately as Open Source.) To build shared libraries, I
use a patched version of libtool 1.3.5. My patch is based on the
patch posted to this list by Wilfredo Sanchez in November
(http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool/2000-November/004116.html). My
patch is attached to this message; I hope it's in good shape.
I have fixed some problems the original patch had, and it's now
working fine for installing libraries and dynamically-loaded modules.
However, developing libraries could be problematic - Darwin shows
some strange behaviour when it comes to hardcoding library paths. I
have worked out what Darwin does, but I don't know much about how
libtool handles these issues and how other platforms behave, so I
need help from a libtool guru to sort this out.
I know that the 1.3 line is considered dead, but the software out
there uses it. I haven't had the time to look at the 1.4 branch, so I
don't know how different it is and how helpful this patch is. Mea
culpa. I am willing to work with someone with more 1.4 experience to
integrate Darwin support into the other branches.
Awaiting comments,
chrisp
libtool-1.3.5-darwin.patch
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