[tlbuild] Stripping the luatex binary

[Philipp Stephani]

Am 06.05.2011 um 10:59 schrieb Peter Breitenlohner:

> On Mon, 2 May 2011, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> 
>> Am 02.05.2011 um 19:49 schrieb George N. White III:
>> 
>>> You are missing a key option to ld -- "man ld" (on Leopard) says:
>>> 
>>> -search_paths_first
>>>                By default the -lx and -weak-lx options first search for a
>>>                file of the form `libx.dylib' in each directory in the
>>>                library search path, then a file of the form `libx.a' is
>>>                searched for in the library search paths.  This option
>>>                changes it so that in each path `libx.dylib' is searched for
>>>                then `libx.a' before the next path in the library search path
>>>                is searched.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for this hint! I've read over the ld manpage but must have
>> overlooked this.  I think this flag should be added to all invocations of
>> the linker on OS X since there are quite a few binaries that link against
>> static libraries.
> 
> Hi Philipp,
> 
> all this actually shouldn't matter for TL2011 because the (static) libraries
> from the TL tree are always used with their full path and never use '-L/-l'.

Certainly not in all cases, otherwise this error would never have occurred. The makeconv linker command is something like
... -L../lib -licuuc ...
where ../lib contains the static libraries.