Re: [Swarm-Support] MacOS X Binaries Available: Heatbug fails

[Bill Northcott]

> It comes from dlcompat

I sort of knew that, but I have never installed dlcompat.  It must have 
come with another package, which is the full nastness of UNIX directory 
pollution.  That is why I ditched Fink way back.

I am concerned that Swarm runs on MacOS X without the need to install a 
lot of non-standard (in Apple terms) stuff.

This is why frameworks are so nice.  If your app needs something, then you 
can include it in your private framework and there is zero chance that it 
will pollute anything else.  As sson as I clearly understand how to do it, 
I will rebuild all the MacOS X Swarm stuff as frameworks.

To make it yet more bizarre, when libdl.dylib is removed, the Swarm 
libraries build without the manual intervention!  Basically libtool's 
behaviour is dependent on details of the system confguration in 
non-obvious ways.  This is not libtool's fault.  It does not pretend to 
understand Darwin, and in any event it did not create the UNIX mess.  It 
just tries to cope with it.

Bill Northcott