Re: build failures on Mac OS X 10.6.8 - diagnosis

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Nate Eagleson <nate@nateeag.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: build failures on Mac OS X 10.6.8 - diagnosis\r
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+On Tue, Jun 02 2015, Nate Eagleson <nate@nateeag.com> wrote:\r
+\r
+> Hi folks,\r
+>\r
+> I'm trying to move from Apple's Mail.app in favor of offlineimap/notmuch,\r
+> but 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 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 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
+> 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 and\r
+> using it to specify an absolute path to libutil.a would address this\r
+> issue without introducing new ones.\r
+>\r
+> Does this sound like a sane solution? Would a patch to do this be\r
+> accepted?\r
+\r
+Now that I look at this, I think that having full path to util/libutil.a\r
+should be used (everywhere) and if there is need to use *system-provided*\r
+libutil, then -lutil is to be added to the command line...\r
+\r
+... I think it is somewhat unfortunate (or confusing) to have the library\r
+named as such, and perhaps better naming should have been used, but (*)\r
+\r
+(*) http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html\r
+\r
+> If not, what would be a better way to solve this?\r
+\r
+Actually you could check how homebrew etc. solve this problem (or if there\r
+is any) to come with other ideas...\r
+\r
+Tomi\r
+\r
+>\r
+> Thanks.\r
+>\r
+> -Nate\r
+\r