On Jan 24, 2004, at 8:06 PM, Bill Northcott wrote:
On 24/01/2004, at 5:01 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Under OS X 10.1 or 10.2, install the fink 'dlcompat' package.
Remember
to pass -I/sw/include and -L/sw/lib (assuming your fink is in /sw)
and
you also may have to pass -ldl if your configure scripts don't know
to
look for it.
Partisan disclaimer. - I hate Fink.
<RANT>
Be aware that if you link against Fink libraries, you are not writing
code for MacOS X. You are writing code for Fink. The resulting code
will not run on a vanilla MacOS X system, which in my humble view is
a 'really bad idea' (TM).
Very quickly you end up with the usual Linux mess where users need to
install a laundry list of libraries and tools to run your package.
If the extras are installed with Fink, a lot of the MacOs X is
effectively replaced because Fink puts itself at the front of the
PATH. That can cause other thinks to break. In short - it sucks.
Darwin/MacOS X has really neat ways of letting you package everything
you need into an application bundle or a Framework and not trample on
anything else in the system, which does not suck.
</RANT>
Bill Northcott
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