Need help compiling gpgme fat

[Stéphane Corthésy]

Hi,

I've just downloaded latest libtool (1.5.22), and replaced  
config.guess, config.sub, install-sh and ltmain.sh, applied my  
previous patch on generated libtool, and now it works :-) I can now  
build libgpgme for both ppc and intel in one pass/one lib.
(maybe my patch is not even needed, I haven't tried yet without it)
When will you upgrade your libtool (as well as gpg's, as I guess  
there is the same problem when trying to compile gpg as fat binary)?

Stéphane

On Mar 5, 2006, at 18:18 , Stéphane Corthésy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mar 5, 2006, at 17:37 , Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
>> At Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:04:08 +0100,
>> Stéphane Corthésy wrote:
>>> I'm trying to compile gpgme 1.1.2 on MacOSX, as a fat static  
>>> library.
>>
>> Can you enlighten me?  What's a "fat" library?
>
>
> A library containing code for multiple processor architectures. In  
> my case, OSX for intel and ppc.
>
>
>>> I could compile gpg-error 1.2 as a fat library; I had some troubles,
>>> but could solve them: that new version needs now libintl (version  
>>> 1.0
>>> didn't), and the configure script doesn't say anything when it
>>> doesn't find it; user notices it only when compiling library.
>>
>> Well, we need to call bindtextdomain.  It should be easy to add a
>> configure check for that, can you submit a patch?  (Alternatively, I
>> can send you a patch for testing).
>
>
> Sorry, I know absolutely nothing about automake, autoconf and these  
> tools.
> Anyway, I have libintl installed on my machine, so it's no longer a  
> problem for me.
>
>
>>> I applied the same patch to gpgme's libtool, but it seems it is not
>>> enough, as I think gpgme is not built/linked the same way as gpg- 
>>> error:
>>
>> gpgme links a shared library from some files and a static library
>> (which it built itself).  This requires special support on some
>> platforms, and in fact may not be available on all platforms.   
>> libtool
>> encapsulates this properly.  You may need to extend libtool to  
>> support
>> "fat" libraries (whatever they are :)
>
>
> Hmm, well, too hard for me. I tried tweaking resulting libtool, and  
> went further in the build, until stumbling on the fact that 'ar'  
> doesn't like adding files with multiple architectures on an  
> existing archive; creating a single archive for multiple  
> architectures works though. Maybe a limitation of 'ar'.
>
>
>> The alternative would be to recompile every file for each of the
>> thread packages.  This is certainly possible, however, there are  
>> other
>> packages where this trick is used.  It's quite convenient.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marcus
>
>
> That would do the trick, if libtool was invoked only once for all  
> files, like it is the case for libgpg-error. Problem is that I  
> don't know where I should patch makefiles.
> I'll try to compile gpgme twice, one for each architecture, and  
> then 'lipo' them. And I'll post the question about GNU libtool on  
> macosx mailing lists.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stéphane
>
>
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