[tlbuild] PostScript support in dvisvgm for darwin(legacy)

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 17 March 2018 at 23:29, Karl Berry wrote:
>     add paths or libraries to the search
>     mechanism of the dynamic linker on Mac OS.
>
> Some info here:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8137850
>
> The man page for the Mac loader, if such still exists, should give the
> option, if there is one. Maybe -rpath?
> https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/dyld.1.html

Those pages describe the usual way of linking rather than dlopen.
-rpath would help for the usual way of linking, but I suspect I would
always need access to libgs then.

>     CFLAGS & CXXFLAGS
>     to *something*, the optimisation was apparently gone completely.
>
> It is normal and desirable for the optimization flags to be part of
> C*FLAGS.
>
>     I noticed that C[whatever]FLAGS are not always applied,
>     so there might be some compiler calls without optimisation.
>
> Indeed, ICU (?) or other packages think they know better than to follow
> the convention that everyone else uses. Right, we don't worry about those.
>
>     ship libc++ with TeX Live
>
> Please don't. That sounds horrible.

It's 1,5 MB. Which part exactly sounds horrible?

Mojca