[perl #53494] [BUG] --parrot_is_shared=0 IS shared?

[Andrew Dougherty]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Will Coleda via RT wrote:

> On Mon Apr 28 23:52:22 2008, coke wrote:
> > While trying to put the macport for 0.6.1 together, I noticed that the
> > install failed.
> > 
> > Tracked it down to the fact that --parrot_is_shared=0 seems to be
> > generating a parrot that relies on a shared lib.

> Verified, this still fails[1] as of r36803. This, combined with TT #344, 
> blocks creation of a functioning macport.

> [1] Generates a parrot that depends on libparrot.dylib

That's because Configure.pl doesn't allow you any way to override the 
hints file.  What I had in mind was a more primitive, ruthless editing of 
the darwin hints file, something like this (totally untested)

--- parrot-current/config/init/hints/darwin.pm	2009-02-01 20:44:27.000000000 -0500
+++ parrot-andy/config/init/hints/darwin.pm	2009-02-17 09:55:39.000000000 -0500
@@ -55,20 +55,6 @@
         ld_load_flags       => '-undefined dynamic_lookup -bundle',
         memalign            => 'some_memalign',
         has_dynamic_linking => 1,
-
-        # RT 43147:  When built against a dynamic libparrot,
-        # installable_parrot records the path to the blib version
-        # of the library.
-
-        parrot_is_shared       => 1,
-        libparrot_shared       => 'libparrot.$(SOVERSION)$(SHARE_EXT)',
-        libparrot_shared_alias => 'libparrot$(SHARE_EXT)',
-        rpath                  => "-L",
-        libparrot_soname       => "-install_name "
-            . $lib_dir
-            . $conf->data->get('slash')
-            . "libparrot"
-            . $conf->data->get('share_ext')
     );
 }
 


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    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu