Re: [Libevent-users] Mac OS X: Failed link, linking against a plists impersonating object files???

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm building on Mac OS X 10.8.4 (x64). The library configured OK, but
>> it attempts to link against some plist files which are named like
>> object files.
>>
>> libevent-2.0.21-stable$ file .libs/event.o
>> .libs/event.o: XML  document text
>> libevent-2.0.21-stable$ cat .libs/event.o
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
>> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
>> <plist version="1.0">
>> <dict>
>>  <key>clang_version</key>
>> <string>clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final)</string>
>> ...
>>
>> Any ideas??? Searching has not returned up much.
>
> Strange; the likeliest thing I can think of is that something strange
> is going on with libtool.  I know it's a dumb idea, but perhaps there
> are some old files lurking around from a previous build with a
> different version of the tools?
Thanks Nick.

This is from a fresh download and unpack. I also experienced the issue
after a 'make distclean'.

Would you know if/how to update the auto tools stuff? Can I download a
new configure and drop in the project sources?

> (I build Libevent 2.0 and 2.1 regularly with OSX 10.8.5, and they work
> okay for me)
I'm using the tarball libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz dated 2012-11-18.
Do you use the tarballs, or do you pull from version control?

Jeff
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