Re: Link all dependencies on Mac?

[Markus Mützel]

Am 29. September 2020 um 09:44 Uhr schrieb "Carlo De Falco":
> > Il giorno 28 set 2020, alle ore 20:03, Markus Mützel 
> > <markus.muetzel@gmx.de> ha scritto:
> > 
> > Could a developer on MacOS please check if the patch in bug #59174 does the 
> > Correct Thing(TM)?
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59174
> > 
> > I saw that the homebrew devs are configuring with 
> > --enable-link-all-dependencies in the formulas:
> > https://github.com/octave-app/homebrew-octave-app/blob/master/Formula/octave-octave-app%406.0.90.rb#L113
> > 
> > But is this because it Just Works(TM)? Could that lead to overlinking?
> > 
> > Markus
> 
> I build Octave independent of a package manager and I also need to specify 
> --enable-link-all-dependencies.
> I cannot find explicit documentation for this, but it is my experience that 
> secondary dependencies are not found and loaded by default on macos.
> 

Thanks for this experience report.
So it looks like developers currently need to pass this switch on MacOS. 
Changing the default wouldn't make things worse iiuc.

Markus