Issue 2276: distutils out-of-date for runtime_library_dirs flag on OS X (original) (raw)

Created on 2008-03-12 02:50 by janssen, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (6)
msg63469 - (view)	Author: Bill Janssen (janssen) *	Date: 2008-03-12 02:50
The OS X linker now understands -R, but distutils continues to pass the wrong flags back in distutils.unixccompiler.runtime_library_dir_option(). I'm checking with the Apple folks as to exactly what the right flag is.
msg74438 - (view)	Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) *	Date: 2008-10-07 12:05
Do you mean the -rpath option? Note that this is (IMHO) less useful than on other systems because the linked-to library needs to have a specific link path (@rpath/mylib.dylib). It can be useful for linking extentions though. Using this feature requires OSX 10.5, AFAIK it is not supported on earlier releases of OSX.
msg74456 - (view)	Author: Bill Janssen (janssen) *	Date: 2008-10-07 15:00
Yes, we were looking at using this for linking PyLucene's JCC extension. I believe we came up with a different way of doing it. It would still be useful to have distutils.unixccompiler.runtime_library_dir_option() updated to understand the right flags for Leopard.
msg92319 - (view)	Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) *	Date: 2009-09-06 13:31
Could you provide an example that shows why adding support for the -rpath option on OSX would be useful? (As in a set of source files that shows how this support would be used). As I mentioned before the OSX support for -rpath behaves completely different than that on Linux, and I'd expect that adding runline_library_dirs_option support for OSX would cause confusion because of that.
msg189602 - (view)	Author: Mark Lawrence (BreamoreBoy) *	Date: 2013-05-19 15:34
Is this still a problem or not? If yes what can be done about it? If no can we close it?
msg240360 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2015-04-09 17:41
Since no example was forthcomming, let's close this.