Re: [PATCH] Be nice with compilers that do not support runtime paths at all.

From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2007, 01:08 UTC
Message-ID: <FC9DDD6F-14A5-4B73-9192-042EA107ED77@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <47041C7A.9090003@midwinter.com>

On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Steven Grimm wrote:

Show 12 quoted lines

> Benoit Sigoure wrote:
>> On Darwin for instance, there is no -R or -Wl,-rpath thing to  
>> fiddle with,
>> it's simply not supported by the dynamic loader.  This patch  
>> introduces a
>> NO_RPATH define which is enabled by default for Darwin.
>>
>
> I compile git on a MacBook Pro (OS X 10.4, gcc 4.0.1 build 5367  
> from the normal Xcode install that comes on the OS install DVD) on  
> a regular basis. The makefile works fine for me. I suspect there's  
> something else going on here.

The rpath code is only used if you define one of the following options:

CURLDIR ZLIB_PATH OPENSSLDIR ICONVDIR

The default Darwin options don't define any of these, it just relies on finding those libraries in the library path (including /sw or /opt/ local if you have them installed).

~~ Brian G.