Sender: Michael Williams <mjwilliams@gmail.com>
From: Michael Williams <mike@pentangle.net>
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Subject: Installation problem on OS X
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To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:23:31 -0000

Hi,

there seems to be a problem with notmuch on OS X when installed to a =
non-standard location: it's install name is "libnotmuch.*.dylib" rather =
than something like "$(LIBDIR)/libnotmuch.*.dylib", which prevents the =
binary from locating the library when things are installed in a =
nonstandard location. make works, but attempts to run it result in

dyld: Library not loaded: libnotmuch.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/mike/.homebrew/bin/notmuch
  Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap

I ran into this when installing it via the homebrew packaing system into =
somewhere other than /usr/local. I've fixed it for the time being by =
doing=20

  install_name_tool -change libnotmuch.2.dylib =
/Users/mike/.homebrew/lib/libnotmuch.2.dylib =
/Users/mike/.homebrew/bin/notmuch

and in principle I could add a post-install hook to the homebrew formula =
to do this for other users of homebrew/OS X, but it seems like this is =
something that would be better fixed upstream. Any thoughts?

A related issue has come up before: =
http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/004094.html. Here's the =
discussion of this issue at homebrew: =
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/8284. I am not on the mailing =
list so please CC me on replies.

Mike=