I have finally had success building devel/gobject-introspection on a MacBook. Before I commit the patches (attached), however, I would appreciate feedback. The patch to meson.build is already filed upstream and is awaiting action on the merge request. I think that should not be controversial as (in my experience anyway) there are no relevant symbols to link against and trying to do so should clearly be prevented. I am less certain of the other part, which changes Makefile and tools/meson.build, and adds files/fix-darwin-rpath.sh. The idea is to introduce a step using install_name_tool to fix the rpath in g-ir-compiler so that it will run correctly during the build process. Of course, this must be reverted during the install step, so the post-install target is added. This seems overly complicated (an alternative might be to create a new package for the girepository library, but that also is invasive into the package build process, just in a different way). However, it is what is essentially stated as necessary by https://mesonbuild.com/Creating-OSX-packages.html; see the statement "This is the part of OSX app bundling that you must always do manually." In any case, I would greatly appreciate comments, as we need a way to make this package on Darwin and I don't think purity is an option in this case. Thanks. Cheers, Brook
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