ilovezfs@icloud.com wrote:

Full_Name: ilovezfs Version: LMDB_0.9.18 OS: macOS URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (50.168.32.161)

This is in regard to the Homebrew formula for LMDB (See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/2317). Currently, we are having to patch the shared library extensions from .so to .dylib, which is the correct file extension on macOS. It would be great if this patch could be removed from the formula, which would mean upstream support for automatically setting the extension correctly based on platform in the build system.

This is a pretty common practice, and it would be highly appreciated as we like to as little patching as possible to upstream code for maintainability and fidelity.

In particular, we're currently having to do the following replacement:

 inreplace "Makefile", ".so", ".dylib"

Fixed in commit c6510147cee88d182af431c14a61fad6fae18be3

Here's a typical example of how shared libraries get named on macOS:

libiconv.2.4.0.dylib -> libiconv.2.dylib
libiconv.2.dylib
libiconv.dylib -> libiconv.2.4.0.dylib