Re: Link all dependencies on Mac?

Carlo De Falco <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> Il giorno 28 set 2020, alle ore 20:03, Markus Mützel <[email protected]> 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.

c.
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