[Live-devel] config.macosx change

[Thomas Maier]

Am 08.06.2011 um 07:55 schrieb Thomas Maier:
> Am 08.06.2011 um 02:12 schrieb Ross Finlayson:
>>> I could not get the macos version to compile with
>>> 
>>> LIBRARY_LINK =        ar cr
>>> 
>>> so I used
>>> 
>>> LIBRARY_LINK =        libtool -s -o
>>> 
>>> which seems to work fine.
>> 
>> That's interesting.  On my Mac OS X system, I have both "ar" and "libtool".  So I don't know why you don't have "ar".
>> 
>> Could other Mac OS X developers please check this?  Does anyone else have "libtool" , but not "ar"?  And does anyone have "ar", but not "libtool"?
> 
> I have both ar and libtool but I remember I also had problems compiling because make aborted.  A simple ranlib on the libs followed by another call to make did the job.  Never tried the libtool way but I'll give it a shot once I get to it.

To be more explicit, maybe the reason he "could not get the macos version to compile" is not that he doesn't have ar like you deduced but that ar doesn't work as expected on OS X.  That sure was the case for me.

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Thomas