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Bug 322476 - Missing check for .dylib
Missing check for .dylib
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: general
2.8.x
Other Mac OS
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-26 01:26 UTC by Vladimir Panov
Modified: 2006-03-21 13:58 UTC
See Also:
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Description Vladimir Panov 2005-11-26 01:26:45 UTC 
Version details: 2.8.4
Distribution/Version: Darwin

configure checks for the filename extension of the dynamic libraries of the
current OS. This check does not contain a case for Darwin (which extension is
.dylib). Look for the line:
"AC_MSG_CHECKING(for the suffix of shared libraries)"
in configure.in.
Comment 1 Anders Carlsson 2006-03-06 08:06:35 UTC 
2006-03-06  Anders Carlsson  <andersca@imendio.com>

        * configure.in:
        Make .dylib the shared library suffix on darwin.
        (#322476, Vladimir Panov)
Comment 2 Anders Carlsson 2006-03-13 08:42:27 UTC 
I reverted this fix since it breaks module loading in GTK+ and Pango under Darwin.

The reason for this is that libtool creates shared modules with the .so suffix and shared libraries with the .dylib suffix. When for example pango-querymodules looked for engine modules, it couldn't find any with the .dylib extensions since libtool would create them with the .so suffix.
Comment 3 Vincent Lefevre 2006-03-21 13:58:31 UTC 
If you haven't done this, you should probably change the line

AC_MSG_CHECKING(for the suffix of shared libraries)

into

AC_MSG_CHECKING(for the suffix of shared modules)

and add some comments in the configure.in file. A correct message would have avoid the mess.