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

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes:

> 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.

From the point of view of someone who has not followed the details, and
hears "wrappers remove $ORIGIN", it is hard to arrive at an explanation.