[cairo] Issues with Pango on OSX

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Thu Jul 8 10:24:54 PDT 2010


On 07/08/2010 01:06 PM, Travis Griggs wrote:
> 
> I have verified that using the libraries that I compiled into my
> ${prefix}/lib without any install_name_tool changes, work. So something
> about adjusting to the use of @executable_path and moving the libraries,
> and dl_open()'ing those, causes the errors above. But I really really
> really want to be able to make the libraries relative to the executable.
> We don't control where people install our program, they can put it
> anywhere, but we can make sure that we place the libraries an a fixed
> placed relative to that. This works fine for Cairo, but seems to be
> causing problems for Pango. I'm no expert in how Pango works, or the
> arts of OSX library resolution, so any help or hints, much appreciated.

Owen submitted a patch to GNOME bugzilla to do something like that IIRC.  You
may want to check it out.  Don't have the bug number handy right now.

behdad


More information about the cairo mailing list