Re: MacOS issues with devel/glibc2, devel/gobject-introspection, devel/pango

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:38:49PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> > * On 2020-02-16 at 14:47 GMT, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >
> >> I got an offlist comment that this is a wrappers (pkgsrc) bug, with
> >> $ORIGIN being removed when it shouldn't.   So probably if you build w/o
> >> pkgsrc it would work.
> >> 
> >> You could also try traditional wrappers vs cwrappers.
> >
> > Can we please stop spreading FUD.  Removing $ORIGIN is a pkgsrc policy
> > and intrinsically tied into the way that we build software and how we
> > believe software should be built.
> 
> And it is, as far as I can tell completely undocumented, so it is not
> surpising that the people not involved in writing this bit of code do
> not understand it:

Actually, it is documented WHAT WE ALLOW. $ORIGIN is not on that list
and dropped. Heck, it is not an absolute path and therefore dropped.

Joerg