Re: nvi on MacOS

[Chris Wareham <chriswareham%chriswareham.demon.co.uk@localhost>]

Simon Burge said on 5/2/08 02:32:
> With editors/nvi (from pkgsrc-2007Q4) on MacOS 10.5.1 I get the
> following:
>
>         mini:pkgsrc/editors/nvi 83% nvi
>         dyld: Symbol not found: ___global_list
>           Referenced from: /Volumes/NetBSD/pkg/lib/libvi.0.dylib
>           Expected in: flat namespace
>
>         Trace/BPT trap
>         Exit 133
>
> If I remove the strip option from the install command (or run nvi
> directly from the work directory), nvi then appears to work normally.
>
> Is the following an acceptable patch to fix this?
>
> Cheers,
> Simon.
> --
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/editors/nvi/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.26
> diff -d -p -u -r1.26 Makefile
> --- Makefile    3 Nov 2007 13:23:53 -0000       1.26
> +++ Makefile    5 Feb 2008 02:27:56 -0000
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ CONFIGURE_ENV+=               vi_cv_include_sys_selec
>  .elif ${OPSYS} == "Darwin"
>  CONFIGURE_ENV+=                vi_cv_sys5_pty=no
>  LDFLAGS+=              -flat_namespace
> +INSTALL_UNSTRIPPED=    yes
>  .endif
>  
>  WRKSRC=			${WRKDIR}/${DISTNAME}/build.unix

Your problem with nvi sounds very similar to one I encountered yesterday
with PostgreSQL 8.3. Strip is dangerous on Mac OS X (at least from 10.4
onwards) as it removes undefined symbols from shared libraries. I got
bitten by this trying to install PostgreSQL using "install-strip", and
ended up with complaints about missing symbols when I tried to
initialise the database. The details of the problem can be found here,
along with a possible solution:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg01470.php

Chris