[Pythonmac-SIG] -R, -L, ldd, and the meaning of life...

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> In much of the Unixoid world, link editors understand a -R flag
    >> and/or an LD_RUN_PATH environment variable (or something similar).
    >> One or the other tell the run-time linker to search the argument
    >> director(y|ies) for shared libraries.

    Jack> You don't normally need it for MacOSX....  See "man dyld" for the
    Jack> gory details. So, -L is usually enough, but you have to be careful
    Jack> with relative pathnames to -L as these'll be recorded as relative
    Jack> pathnames in the resulting binary. Sometimes this is what you
    Jack> want, often it isn't.

    >> Also, is there a MacOSX equivalent of the ldd command?

    Jack> otool will tell you pretty much anything you want to know.

Thanks to Jack and several others who replied privately with the sought
after information.  I will be careful about the relative paths.

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