Can't open data file in r14202

Thu Jun 1 19:38:14 EDT 2006

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:44:59PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>:
> 
> >And the latest comment from Peter:
> >"Heh, I bet they still ahve a configure check for darwin that does a sed
> >on the generated libtool script to always build dylibs. I added that
> >years ago, and it always worked because I controlled how things were
> >loaded etc by being fink's maintainer of libtool and guile etc.
> >
> >It is probably time to remove that hack now :)"

<head spins>  Wow, talk about getting exactly what you ask for.

> 
> Yeah, I think we left that in there...
> 
> >So I commented out his sed patch (diff attached), and r14287  
> >configures, compiles, and runs without the post install symlink.
> 
> Good news.
> 
> >I take it that Peter's comment about hoping nothing puts -lfoo on the 
> > link line means that it's the .so which will cause my system to barf 
> > if some other routine tries to link to it?
> 
> Yes, that's what it means..  Unfortunately right now there IS something
> that does, 

There is?  If you're thinking of business_backend_file, I don't think
it does anymore.  At least, it's not supposed too.

-chris

> but it's relatively easy to fix if we just split the .so
> into two parts, a shared library and the loadable module.
> 
> >Dave
> 
> -derek
> 
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