Re: OS X distribution close to completion

Many thanks for the cogent and complete response Fabian!

I'll send my installer as-is to David for testing and we'll see what he thinks. I'm also doing a 10.4 PPC/Intel build since I have access to a PowerBook G4, so that should follow in time if all goes well.

Regards,

Ian


On 2012-01-28, at 9:20 AM, Fabian Keil wrote:

> Ian Silvester <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I now have a 3.0.19 OS X distribution built that, by rights, should work
>> on Leopard upwards and on all three architectures (PPC, i386 & x86_64).
>> It has so far been tested on Snow Leopard 64 bit and 32 bit, and on Lion
>> 64 bit.
> 
> Great.
> 
>> Before I make it generally available I have one more issue to resolve.
>> One tester pointed out that I am using the statically-linked PCRE that's
>> part of the Privoxy source code. I'm aware that it's de rigeur to
>> dynamically link to a more recent version. I've downloaded the PCRE
>> project, but (and please excuse my ignorance) I have a few questions:
> 
> Note that while using a more recent pcre version is recommended,
> it's not a hard requirement and currently not done for the Windows
> and OS/2 binaries either.
> 
> If you can use a more recent pcre version that's great,
> but it's not really a show-stopper and if it isn't trivial
> it could always be done later.
> 
>> - if I build and install this in the default manner, will Privoxy's
>> configure automatically choose to link to it rather than the built-in
>> version?
> 
> That's the idea. If it doesn't, you may have to specify some
> additional library or include paths to check, though.
> 
> On FreeBSD I always set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to make sure the pcre
> version installed through the ports is picked up. My privoxy-configure
> alias starts like this:
> 
> LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/ CC=... ./configure ...
> 
> For gcc46 this is not actually necessary, as it apparently looks
> at those paths by default, but it's required for all the other
> compilers I occasionally use, for example the system gcc 4.2.1,
> the system clang 3.0 (branches/release_30 142614) and pcc installed
> from ports.
> 
>> - am I free to bundle the PCRE binary I build with my distribution?
> 
> More recent pcre versions are licensed under 'THE "BSD" LICENCE':
> http://www.pcre.org/licence.txt
> which in FSF-speak is not actually the "original BSD license",
> but the "Modified BSD license" and thus GPL-compatible:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD
> 
> So as far as the licenses are concerned, the binaries can
> be legally bundled.
> 
> On most free operating systems bundling them would be considered
> bad form as it duplicates code and prevents separate updates,
> but of course OS X isn't a free operating system and if a bundled
> pcre version is what most users would expect, that's probably the
> way to go.
> 
>> - crunch question - if I make a multi-architecture ('Universal' in
>> Macintosh parlance) PCRE binary, will my multi-architecture privoxy
>> binary link to the correct architecture at runtime?
> 
> No idea, maybe that's documented somewhere on the pcre website.
> 
> Fabian
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