RPATH again - different types of executables

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Mon Mar 27 22:21:17 CEST 2006


On Monday 27 March 2006 22:15, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Slight correction on terminology below...
>
> On 3/27/06, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> > 1) "normal" GUI applications - on OS X frameworks should be generated,
> > RPATH to the install dir
>
> s/frameworks/application bundles/

Yes, right, I mixed it up.

> Explanation: "Frameworks" on OS X are library bundles.  Applications
> are also placed in bundles, but they're called application bundles (or just
> app bundles).
>
> For basic KDE libraries, framework bundles (in other words, frameworks)
> should probably be created.  These would probably be installed somewhere
> like /Library/Frameworks/kdelibs.framework/...

So, should always frameworks be generated for the libs ?

> For basic KDE GUI applications, application bundles should definitely
> be generated.  I'd suggest installing them by default somewhere like
> /Applications/KDE (/Applications is the default place for gui
> applications).

Ok, I'll have a look.
But probably not before the next cmake release, which will (AFAIK) feature 
improved support for bundles and frameworks.

Bye
Alex
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