On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> Do we know how long it wouldtake to fix the specific JPEG library issue and
> the general relocation? We were waiting for Peter's revisions to the
> autotools before we could avoid setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. Where are we now in
> this respect Peter?
>
> A part of me would like to see this fixed prioperly for 2014A, and if it takes
> a week or so then Mark may have TOPCAT 4.2 ready. OTOH I can see potential
> dangers of new issues cropping up, as we're not testing MacOSX as extensively
> as Linux. Also I don't want to keep pushing the release back. When one issue
> is fixed, something else can come along and we never make a release.
>
> What do we/I need to do to make 2014A starjava apps work on MacOSX?
> Just run install_name_tool -add_rpath on the binaries?
Would it work to just doctor (unset?) the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in
the respective startup scripts:
starjava/bin/topcat
/stilts
/jsamp
/splat/splat
I don't have OSX to hand, so I can't easily test this.
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