Subject: Re: "libtool" generated shared objects under Mac OS X
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jed Davis <jdev@panix.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/15/2006 17:19:03
Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk> writes:

> 	Hello,
>
> our "libtool" compiles shared objects to ".so" files under Mac OS X.
> But both the "pango" and the "gtk2+" package expected (before I
> patched them) ".dylib" files (which is the suffix for shared libraries
> under Mac OS X). Is that a bug in our "libtool" or in Pango and GTK+ 2.x.

Are they MH_DYLIB or MH_BUNDLE?  (file(1) should tell you.)  The
convention seems to be that the former should be named with ".dylib"
and the latter with either ".bundle" or ".so" -- apparently even
Apple-packaged software is split there.

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