Hi, Jack,
You wrote:
> It would be helpful if you confimed what the linkages for gtar
> looked like with...
>
> otool -L /usr/local/Cellar/gnu-tar/1.29/bin/gtar
$ otool -L /usr/local/bin/gnutar
/usr/local/bin/gnutar:
/usr/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current
version 10.3.0)
/usr/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current
version 8.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 1226.10.1)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
(compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 1258.1.0)
/Users/gross/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0,
current version 1.0.0)
> and double check that you don't have any headers or libs for
> libiconv, gettext, and libintl accidentally installed in /usr/local
> (to make sure you aren't ending up with mismatched headers and libs
> during the tar build).
They are all installed in /usr/local. I'm not using homebrew or any
similar systems--I install programs manually (metaphorically).
There's no possibility of conflict, because those are the only copies
on the system, as far as I know. I ran "make check" before installing
each, and no errors were reported.
> ps I suspect you will also find that passing --disable-nls to
> configure during the tar build will also suppress your problem.
Correct. Does that help in any way to narrow down the source of the
bug?
> Also, I suspect that building tar against libiconv without
> gettext is poorly tested on OS X.
gettext is also installed. I'm not sure why it's not showing up on
the list above, because it's in /usr/local/lib. I think that tar is
calling xgettext instead, based on the references to xgettext in
Makefile.
Incidentally, running "gdb" on the latest Mac OS is a pain--Apple
thought for some reason that it was a security risk. Running "lldb,"
the default debugger, told me nothing.--Rob
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Boston College [email protected]
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