thanks for your quick answer. i thought i'd have to do
that - i was just surprised that the universal 10.4SDK
supplied with the Xcode tools does contain non-fat libs.
would it be impudent to ask how much sense it makes to
call it _universal_ SDK then?
From my response:
(The library in question was not from Apple, btw. The
alternative is
to use the various APIs on the system that deal with JPEGs.)
You have a flat version of the library installed in /usr/local/lib.
It was not supplied with the SDK nor installed by Apple. The SDK
contains a symlink from |SDKROOT|/usr/local/lib to /usr/local/lib.
Generally, stuff installed in /usr/local/lib -- mostly from random
open source libraries -- is not platform specific and, thus, the
symlink makes sense. Kind of.
I'm pretty certain, actually, that the symlink is currently causing
more problems than it's worth. We seem to be getting at least one of
these questions a week (mostly on xcode-users), and it's made worse by
the fact that one of the frameworks in the SDK pulls in libjpeg,
libTIFF et al. from /usr/local/lib if they're there. As a result, you
don't even have to link against one of these libraries explicitly to
cause yourself a problem, which is why people are assuming that the
problem is in the SDK itself. In fact, you can easily end up in a
situation where it's impossible to build even the Cocoa Application
template, simply as a result of this problem.
Moreover the errors generated by this problem are often quite hard to
understand. IIRC I had error messages because of $UNIX2003 symbols
that were being used by a library that happened to be in /usr/local/
lib and that was being pulled in by one of the system frameworks.
I contend that the symlink is fundamentally at odds with the idea
behind the SDK system:
o System frameworks can end up pulling-in libraries from /usr/
local/lib rather than the expected versions
o /usr/local/lib contains libraries that may be built for the
*current* system, not the SDK target
o /usr/local/lib often contains libraries that are single-
architecture
o Different machines' /usr/local/lib folders may contain different
libraries
For all of those reasons, I think the symlink should be removed.
I just filed a bug report, <rdar://5697302>, to that effect.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
p.s. Apologies for cross-posting to xcode-users, but I think it's
useful in this case.
