Library search paths, daemon startupitem and launchd

[Tom Davis]

Rett:~ tom$ otool -D /opt/local/lib/libiguanaIR.dylib 
/opt/local/lib/libiguanaIR.dylib:
libiguanaIR.dylib


How do I get it to have an absolute path? libiguanaIR.dylib is built at the same time as igdaemon. So gcc doesn't know where its going to end up the directory structure. Can I assign it an absolute path somehow?

Right now I'm trying to patch the launchctl plist file to add an EnvironmentVariables key for DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH:

set plistDir ${prefix}/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.iguanaIR

pre-install {
    system "cd ${destroot}${plistDir}; patch < ${filespath}/patch-org.macports.iguanaIR.plist.diff" 
}

It's not working yet, but I've found other ports that patch the launchctl plist. Is this bad form?

I'm really surprised others haven't run into this problem. Searches of the archive and Google don't seem to turn up anything I can use. 

Tom

On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> 
> On Jan 25, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> I don't know how to achieve that, however, and I don't know if it's the fault of libiguanaIR.dylib or the program using it.
> 
> Sounds to me like the install_name of libiguanaR.dylib is simply incorrect or unset.  What does otool -D on the libiguanaR.dylib reveal?  If not an absolute path under ${prefix}, it's wrong.
> 
> - Jordan
>