A question on dynamic linking / version-changing libraries

[Dominik Reichardt]

Oh you can build stuff statically but that is a kind of manual work and not for MP to do.

> On 5. Mar 2017, at 19:47, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 2017-03-05, at 9:49 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also fixed-*path* libraries are part of the Mach-O format and the tooling does not exist to override this well...
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> Is this why a program compiled against a brew installation of qt5 in /usr/opt won't work with a ports installation of qt5 in /opt/local, and visa-versa?
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> Is there really no way around this -- no way to say "This program wants qt5 in whatever this system says is the local path of libraries"? No equivalent of $PATH for libraries?
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> ... OK, is there any way - at all - to have a program compiled with either brew or ports that will run on an arbitrary OSX that might not have either? (i.e. -- fully built and contained)?
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