[Gdal-dev] GDAL 1.3.2 Beta 2 Released

[William Kyngesburye]

I didn't try 1.3.2b1, but b2 has a linking problem on Mac OS X.   
Somehow an extra 'ar x' step is added for linking in static libraries  
(ie libmysqlclient.a).  And ar apparently doesn't like a fat  
(universal) static library.

I poked around in libtool, and it seems to have something to do with  
the convenience libs and whole_archive_flag_spec -  
whole_archive_flag_spec is not set now, in 1.3.1 it's "-all_load \ 
$convenience" for darwin.  Without whole_archive_flag_spec, static  
libs go thru the 'ar x' thing.

After setting (hacking) whole_archive_flag_spec="-all_load \ 
$convenience" (in the CXX tag section) in libtool, it works again.


The new way would probably work with the default mysql binaries for  
Mac OS X - they're single-architecture static libs.


On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
>
> A few significant issues were encountered in the GDAL 1.3.2 beta1, so
> I have prepared a beta2 and placed it at:
>
>   http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.3.2b2.tar.gz
>   http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal132b2.zip
>
> One significant change relates to an updating of the libtool  
> infrastructure.
> Hopefully this will help but I would appreciate wide operating system
> tests of it.
>
> If all goes well, I will issue a GDAL 1.3.2 final later this week.
>

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