Re: Building 12.3 from source on Mac

Hi Tom,

> On 23. Jul, 2020, at 16:03, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Looks like what you lack is a symlink libintl.dylib -> libintl.3.4.3.dylib
> in /usr/local/lib.  It's not real clear to me why you'd have .a and .la
> files and no versionless symlink, because all of those files would
> just be used for linking dependent software.

there is not a single symlink in /usr/local/lib:

paul@meerkat:~$ ll /usr/local/lib
total 113968
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel      128 Oct 17  2014 ImageMagick-6.3.3
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel      606 May 14  2010 charset.alias
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel      192 Oct 17  2014 gettext
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel  4244568 Mar  6  2007 libMagick++.10.0.7.dylib
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel  4722468 Mar  6  2007 libMagick++.a
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      980 Mar  6  2007 libMagick++.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel  8414800 Mar  6  2007 libMagick.10.0.7.dylib
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel  8129604 Mar  6  2007 libMagick.a
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      912 Mar  6  2007 libMagick.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel  2416164 Mar  6  2007 libWand.10.0.7.dylib
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel  3354004 Mar  6  2007 libWand.a
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      926 Mar  6  2007 libWand.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel   737672 Sep 23  2006 libasprintf.0.0.0.dylib
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel    47704 Sep 23  2006 libasprintf.a
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      832 Sep 23  2006 libasprintf.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel  4024172 Mar  6  2007 libfreetype.6.3.12.dylib
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel  4240572 Mar  6  2007 libfreetype.a
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      838 Mar  6  2007 libfreetype.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel  3429720 Mar 13  2007 libgdraw.1.0.14.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      891 Mar 13  2007 libgdraw.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel   485908 Sep 23  2006 libgettextlib-0.14.5.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      908 Sep 23  2006 libgettextlib.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel    79480 Sep 23  2006 libgettextpo.0.1.0.dylib
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel    62136 Sep 23  2006 libgettextpo.a
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      954 Sep 23  2006 libgettextpo.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel  1097632 Sep 23  2006 libgettextsrc-0.14.5.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      940 Sep 23  2006 libgettextsrc.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel  5713584 Mar 13  2007 libgunicode.2.0.3.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      877 Mar 13  2007 libgunicode.la
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel   253512 Sep 23  2006 libintl.3.4.3.dylib
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel   286284 Sep 23  2006 libintl.a
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel      829 Sep 23  2006 libintl.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel  2121700 Mar 13  2007 libuninameslist-fr.0.0.1.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      774 Mar 13  2007 libuninameslist-fr.la
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel  2148388 Mar 13  2007 libuninameslist.0.0.1.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      756 Mar 13  2007 libuninameslist.la
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel  1670612 Sep 28  2006 libwmf.a
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      913 Sep 28  2006 libwmf.la
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  wheel   571300 Sep 28  2006 libwmflite.a
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  wheel      751 Sep 28  2006 libwmflite.la
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel      224 Oct 17  2014 pkgconfig

> These files absolutely, positively, gold-plated 100% did not come
> with XCode.  Homebrew installs stuff under /usr/local though.
> Not sure about MacPorts.

but I didn't install Homebrew, MacPorts, Fink or other package managers.

Are they leftovers from old OS versions? After all, I started with don't know what macOS (Mavericks or Yosemite?) back
thenand always upgraded the OS, one major release after the other and it has always been working fine with no problem
atall. And now, as I mentioned before, it's Catalina and still works with not a single reinstall. 

paul@meerkat:~$ uname -a
Darwin meerkat.local 19.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Sun Jul  5 00:43:10 PDT 2020;
root:xnu-6153.141.1~9/RELEASE_X86_64x86_64 

Cheers,
Paul