Varnish on OS X and bug #118

[Martin Aspeli]

Hi guys,

With Varnish 1.1, I'm able to get it to run on OS X after manually 
applying the patch in http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ticket/118. Yay!

The funny thing is that someone else with the same version of OS X does 
*not* seem to have to apply the patch.

I've tried to use the most recent libtool from MacPorts, but to no avail.

Two questions:

  - Is there some workaround I can do to make this work without having 
to patch the source?

  - Is there some way Varnish's configure script could detect OS X and 
make this change as appropriate?

I can't work out what export_dynamic_flag_spec="-flat_namespace" 
actually *does, making it hard to explore the space.

Why do I care so much? I want to build varnish automatically as part of 
a server config, using zc.buildout and 
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/plone.recipe.varnish. We could try to 
patch in that recipe, but I'd rather not.

Cheers,
Martin

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