curl-users
Re: libcurl fix for Mac OS X
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:52:11 -0700
Thanks; I'll try forwarding this to somebody at Apple who may be
able to try to get it fixed -- since it's in their best interest,
and because this is a bit out of my dept of understanding... :-)
On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 11:37 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Dan Wood wrote:
>
> [CC'ing this reply to the curl mailing list for general info]
>
>> I have been using libcurl under Mac OS X without any problems.
>> However, I
>> discovered a tweak to the configure file that will allow prebinding (a
>> darwin library pre-linking thing). Plus, I'm not running a seed
>> of Mac
>> OS X 10.1, and it looks like this will be required to get it to make
>> under 10.1 due to namespace issues.
>
> Thanks a lot for your report and findings.
>
> While I certainly would like to see any problems with curl and
> curl's files
> to be fixed and working for as many platforms as possible, this is
> problem we
> don't want to fix this way. This seems to be a libtool issue
> (bug?). I would
> appriciate it a lot if you would report this problem to the
> libtool guys.
> bug-libtool_at_gnu.org is their email address.
>
> The configure script is generated from configure.in with the
> autoconf tool.
> Our configure.in file we use the AM_PROG_LIBTOOL macro and
> judgding from the
> code in the configure script that uses this faulty sequence:
>
>> Under darwin* | rhapsody*, you need to change
>> allow_undefined_flag='-undefined suppress'
>> to
>> allow_undefined_flag='-undefined error'
>
> ... it mentions libtool in several comments and thus, this should
> be fixed
> there. If they consider it a bug.
>
> I tried to search for this bug among the already reported libtool
> bugs, but
> couldn't even find a search form! :-/
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl dude -- http://curl.haxx.se/
>
>
>
>
-- Dan Wood dwood_at_karelia.com http://www.karelia.com/ http://www.bikealameda.org/ Mac OS X Developer: Online Resume: http://www.karelia.com/resume.htmlReceived on 2001-08-09