[vlc-devel] VLC 2.1.0 packaging for MacOS has broken symlink to old library version

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Hello Nick,

On 26.09.2013, at 21:10, Nick Briggs <briggs at parc.com> wrote:

> Just tried to compile something that depended on libvlccore on a Mac with VLC 2.1.0 --  it failed, so examining the released image I found:
> 
> ls -l  /Volumes/vlc-2.1.0/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/
> total 3248
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 briggs  users   148272 Sep 24 15:03 libvlc.5.dylib
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 briggs  users       14 Sep 24 15:03 libvlc.dylib -> libvlc.5.dylib
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 briggs  users  1500880 Sep 24 15:03 libvlccore.7.dylib
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 briggs  users       18 Sep 24 15:03 libvlccore.dylib -> libvlccore.5.dylib
> 
> Note the broken link "libvlccore.dylib -> libvlccore.5.dylib".

ooops.

Based on your report, I created https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9504 on this matter.

Cheers,

Felix