build failures on Mac OS X 10.6.8 - diagnosis

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+Subject: build failures on Mac OS X 10.6.8 - diagnosis\r
+Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:40:59 -0400\r
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+Hi folks,\r
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+I'm trying to move from Apple's Mail.app in favor of =\r
+offlineimap/notmuch, but\r
+I've run into a build failure on Mac OS X 10.6.8.\r
+\r
+The failure was reported on this list a few months ago, but no =\r
+explanation or\r
+solution was found:\r
+\r
+http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2015/020531.html\r
+\r
+By appending `-Wl,-t` to `FINAL_NOTMUCH_LDFLAGS` in Makefile.local, I\r
+got 10.6.8's ld to dump the list of archives and dylibs that are being\r
+linked in the failed compile.\r
+\r
+That list includes `/usr/lib/libutil.dylib`, but not notmuch's built-in\r
+`util/libutil.a`.\r
+\r
+I have not found a sane way to tell 10.6.8's ld to prefer libutil.a over\r
+libutil.dylib.\r
+\r
+My first thought was that there should be an option to prefer archives =\r
+over\r
+dylibs, but that does not seem to exist in 10.6.8's version of ld.\r
+\r
+Instead, people are recommending absolute paths when you need to link an\r
+archive file in preference to existing dylibs:\r
+\r
+=\r
+http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2003/Sep/msg00008.html\r
+http://stackoverflow.com/questions/844819/how-to-static-link-on-os-x\r
+\r
+As a simple test, I hardcoded an absolute path to libutil in\r
+FINAL_NOTMUCH_LDFLAGS, and the compile succeeded.\r
+\r
+So, it seems like getting the path to the Makefile's parent directory =\r
+and\r
+using it to specify an absolute path to libutil.a would address this =\r
+issue without\r
+introducing new ones.\r
+\r
+Does this sound like a sane solution? Would a patch to do this be =\r
+accepted?\r
+\r
+If not, what would be a better way to solve this?\r
+\r
+Thanks.\r
+\r
+-Nate\r
+\r