Re: -F parameter appears not to be passed in OS X

[Matthew Landauer]

It's for linking against the SDK for Apple's Shake (2d compositing 
package) which by default puts its frameworks in 
/Applications/Shake/sdk/Frameworks (for Shake version 4) or 
/Applications/Shake3.50/sdk/Frameworks (for Shake version 3.5).

Matthew

> Matthew Landauer wrote:
>
> > Thanks for that! That's a really good workaround. I'm productive 
> > again! :-)
> >
> > Maybe I'm misunderstanding things but shouldn't libtool understand 
> > "-F"? It knows how to interpret -framework and -F goes with that as 
> > much as -L goes along with -l for normal linking.
>
>
> Most people put their frameworks in 
> {/System,/Network,,~}/Library/Frameworks, where they are in the 
> default search path. People using libtool don't tend to have 
> uninstalled frameworks (the major use for -F, afaik) during build.
>
> Why do you need -F, do many people actually need it? I have never seen 
> a request for this before.
>
> Peter


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