macOS binary: libpcre.1.dylib not found

[wojas]

macOS binary: libpcre.1.dylib not found

[rvantonder]

Will think about the static linking--for now I'll add something in the install script & README when this goes wrong. Appreciate the note!

[wojas]

Workaround (requires Xcode):

$ install_name_tool -change /usr/local/opt/pcre/lib/libpcre.1.dylib /usr/local/brew/lib/libpcre.1.dylib /usr/local/bin/comby

Found this trick here

[rvantonder]

Thanks for the heads-up! It seems brew may behave differently depending on Mac OS X versions. What is your Mac OS X version?

[wojas]

I'm using macOS Mojave (10.14.5).

I suspect that the issue is not with brew, but that you installed pcre from source sometime in the past, and during the build it is linking to that one instead.

[wojas]

Apparently brew does install by default under /usr/local nowadays. When I originally installed it, everything was installed under /usr/local/brew and brew just keeps installing stuff there. Or perhaps I did not use the default prefix during installation, but I don't remember doing that.

I don't see any clean solution to this other than perhaps just mentioning the workaround in the README.

Anyway, feel free to close this issue.

[wojas]

Or perhaps comby can statically link against pcre instead of using dynamic linking? It would not make the binary significantly larger.

[virusdave]

FYI - i ran into this also when nix-ifying install. Workaround here:
https://github.com/virusdave/nix-comby/blob/master/comby.nix#L60

(although i haven't yet pushed the change to use the xcode-command-line tools instead of the xcode version)

[rvantonder]

Thanks. Closing this, and tracking the general issue in #96