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    Make -no-rpath build more useful on Apple platforms · 6c222297
    Martin Afanasjew authored
    
    
    [ChangeLog][Platform Specific Changes][OS X] Configure with -no-rpath
    will now yield Qt dynamic libraries and frameworks with an absolute
    install name (based in -libdir).
    
    OS X package managers like Homebrew install Qt in a fixed location. This
    change simplifies deployment for such package managers and is consistent
    with the default expectation on Apple platforms for libraries with a
    fixed location to also have absolute install names.
    
    While a relocatable installation (the default) also works in this
    scenario, it requires all software that depends on Qt to be aware of
    this and to embed a suitable RPATH into application binaries (which is
    not automatic for non-qmake builds). This might not be true for some
    select fallback search locations, but as package managers on OS X tend
    not to use those, embedding an RPATH becomes practically mandatory. In a
    default Homebrew installation, Qt is configured such that the frameworks
    end up in /usr/local/Cellar/qt5/<version>/lib and that will be later
    symlinked to /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib, both of which are not searched by
    the dynamic linker by default.
    
    Task-number: QTBUG-48958
    Change-Id: I4395df98771e06a2ce8a293d11dc755bdc50757f
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@theqtcompany.com>
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