[GEM-dev] ftgl on osx

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Apr 14 19:24:41 CEST 2008


On Apr 14, 2008, at 2:53 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> marius schebella wrote:
>> hi,
>> I manually pasted the line
>> -Wl,-dylib_file,/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/ 
>> Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib:/System/Library/Frameworks/ 
>> OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib
>>
>> into the Make.config file (added to LIBS) after i ran ./configure and
>> then gem compiled nicely. and I got font support for osx in text2d  
>> and
>> text3d!
>> unfortunately I don't know how to fix this automatically, maybe  
>> someone
>> can add this to the configure script.
>
> i rather think that this known bug should be fixed upstream instead of
> including kludges in all affected packages.
>
> however, a generic solution for such hacks could be to use special
> environment variables to additionally add linker and compiler flags.
>
> e.g. something like
> GEM_ADDITIONAL_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-dylib_file,/bi/ba/bo.dylib " make
>
> currently you can probably abuse the "X_LIBS" envvar.

Is this needed on Mac OS X:

-L/usr/X11R6/lib

If not, removing that on Mac OS X might be a simpler fix.

.hc



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