[vtkusers] Installed dylibs on OS X

[Chris Scharver]

At 8:37 AM +0100 03/20/2003, Drew McCormack wrote:
>Does the "-install_name" option get used in the VTK linking? Maybe that is the problem.
>You may be able to fix the libraries without recompiling by using the command "install_name_tool". "man install_name_tool" will tell you more.

Thanks for the tip, Drew! I was able to fix the problem by setting a new id:

$ otool -L /usr/local/lib/vtk/libvtkCommon.dylib
libvtkCommon.dylib:
        /tmp/vtk-build/bin/libvtkCommon.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 663.6.0)
        /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 63.0.0)

$ sudo install_name_tool -id /usr/local/lib/vtk/libvtkCommon.dylib /usr/local/lib/vtk/libvtkCommon.dylib

$ otool -L /usr/local/lib/vtk/libvtkCommon.dylib
libvtkCommon.dylib:
        /usr/local/lib/vtk/libvtkCommon.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 663.6.0)
        /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 63.0.0)

This seems like a specific Mach-O thing. Shuffling libraries around seems like a very unsafe thing to do without this extra step. Maybe the install should automatically call the command above when performing the installation?

Chris
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