Installation problem on OS X

Installation problem on OS X

[Michael Williams]

Hi,

there seems to be a problem with notmuch on OS X when installed to a non-standard location: it's install name is "libnotmuch.*.dylib" rather than something like "$(LIBDIR)/libnotmuch.*.dylib", which prevents the binary from locating the library when things are installed in a nonstandard location. make works, but attempts to run it result in

dyld: Library not loaded: libnotmuch.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/mike/.homebrew/bin/notmuch
  Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap

I ran into this when installing it via the homebrew packaing system into somewhere other than /usr/local. I've fixed it for the time being by doing 

  install_name_tool -change libnotmuch.2.dylib /Users/mike/.homebrew/lib/libnotmuch.2.dylib /Users/mike/.homebrew/bin/notmuch

and in principle I could add a post-install hook to the homebrew formula to do this for other users of homebrew/OS X, but it seems like this is something that would be better fixed upstream. Any thoughts?

A related issue has come up before: http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/004094.html. Here's the discussion of this issue at homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/8284. I am not on the mailing list so please CC me on replies.

Mike

Installation problem on OS X

[Michael Williams]

Hi,

there seems to be a problem with notmuch on OS X when installed to a non-standard location: it's install name is "libnotmuch.*.dylib" rather than something like "$(LIBDIR)/libnotmuch.*.dylib", which prevents the binary from locating the library when things are installed in a nonstandard location. make works, but attempts to run it result in

dyld: Library not loaded: libnotmuch.2.dylib
 Referenced from: /Users/mike/.homebrew/bin/notmuch
 Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap

I ran into this when installing it via the homebrew packaing system into somewhere other than /usr/local. I've fixed it for the time being by doing 

 install_name_tool -change libnotmuch.2.dylib /Users/mike/.homebrew/lib/libnotmuch.2.dylib /Users/mike/.homebrew/bin/notmuch

and in principle I could add a post-install hook to the homebrew formula to do this for other users of homebrew/OS X, but it seems like this is something that would be better fixed upstream. Any thoughts?

A related issue has come up before: http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/004094.html. Here's the discussion of this issue at homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/8284.

Mike

Re: Installation problem on OS X

[Tim Gray]

On Oct 27, 2011 at 08:07 PM -0500, Michael Williams wrote:
>and in principle I could add a post-install hook to the homebrew 
>formula to do this for other users of homebrew/OS X, but it seems like 
>this is something that would be better fixed upstream. Any thoughts?

I see you found my original issue.  I also submitted a patch for this 
way back on April 3rd:

http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/004114.html

I'm not sure if it still works, or if it's the best solution.  But it 
worked at the time.

Re: Installation problem on OS X

[Michael Williams]

On 28 Oct 2011, at 08:47, Tim Gray wrote:

> On Oct 27, 2011 at 08:07 PM -0500, Michael Williams wrote:
>> and in principle I could add a post-install hook to the homebrew formula to do this for other users of homebrew/OS X, but it seems like this is something that would be better fixed upstream. Any thoughts?
> 
> I see you found my original issue.  I also submitted a patch for this way back on April 3rd:
> 
> http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2011/004114.html
> 
> I'm not sure if it still works, or if it's the best solution.  But it worked at the time.

Thanks Tim. 

Would it be possible for a solution like this be applied to notmuch/master by someone with commit rights, or should OS X users patch downstream?

Mike

Re: Installation problem on OS X

[David Bremner]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:18:09 -0500, Michael Williams <mike@pentangle.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure if it still works, or if it's the best solution.  But
> > it worked at the time.
> 
> Thanks Tim. 
> 
> Would it be possible for a solution like this be applied to
> notmuch/master by someone with commit rights, or should OS X users
> patch downstream?

I'm sure we can eventually patch the problem upstream. But we probably
need to be a bit more sure that this is really the correct solution. So
hopefully some other OS X users will chime in.

d