Re: [Boost-build] Apple's libtool

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-06 00:51:21

On Thursday 26 June 2008 23:02:14 Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
>    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.

Well, I'm thinking that if we prefer to use Apple libtool by default,
then we better use the full path, even if there's a way to configure
it. Comments?

- Volodya