Re: [Boost-build] Apple's libtool

From: Jurko Gospodnetić (jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-26 15:03:17

   Hi Michael.

> It might be a good idea to qualify completely the path to libtool when
> building on Mac OS X:
> 
>     /usr/bin/libtool
> 
> Apple provides its own libtool, which causes endless troubles, because
> so many projects simply invoke 'libtool', expecting to get either Apple's
> or GNU's version.
> 
> In my case, I installed GNU's libtool into /usr/local, and this worked
> quite nicely with a bunch of GNOME projects.
> 
> However, because I setup /usr/local/bin to take highest precedence, boost's
> build process found GNU's libtool when it wanted Apple's.
> 
> While it's probably better that I play by the name game that Apple created,
> I imagine that it would be fruitful if boost's build process simply 
> specified
> /usr/bin/libtool explicitly.
> 
> This should make the build succeed in virtually all cases on Mac OS X.
> 
> Here is a patch that make this change (just `patch -p0 FILE` from 
> $src_dir):
> 
> --- tools/build/v2/tools/darwinOld.jam    2008-06-19 04:28:19.000000000 
> -0400
> +++ tools/build/v2/tools/darwin.jam    2008-06-19 04:28:22.000000000 -0400
> @@ -213,5 +213,5 @@
>  # TODO: Find a way to use the underlying tools, i.e. lipo, to do this.
>  actions piecemeal archive
>  {
> -    libtool -static -o "$(<:T)"  $(ARFLAGS)  "$(>:T)"
> +    /usr/bin/libtool -static -o "$(<:T)"  $(ARFLAGS)  "$(>:T)"
>  }

   Which version of Boost Build are you using here? Have you tried the 
trunk version?

   I just checked and in the trunk version you can specify the exact 
archiver command to use when you define your darwin toolset. Just use 
the <archiver>/usr/bin/libtool in the third (options) parameter to the 
'using darwin' call in your user-config.jam file.

   Boost Build version included with the 1.35.0 release did not have this.

   Hope this helps.

   Best regards,
     Jurko Gospodnetić