macOS: error when build kiwix-tools natively about kiwix-build HOT 4 CLOSED

I think this is related to the patch here : https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-build/blob/master/patches/xapian_pkgconfig.patch

I apply this patch on xapian to add the -lrt option in xapian.pc in xapian is using the librt.
I had few difficulty to write this patch to correctly define if we are using librt and if we need to add the option. My first idea is that the patch is not well written enough and it breaks somehow on macos.

But it is just a guess, maybe you need -lrt and there is a bug somewhere else who prevent the linker to found the lib.

A first thing you can try, is to add some echo in xapian's configure itself (or configure.acand regenerate configure) to see what is the value of ac_res (some how around the line corresponding to the line 29 of the patch)

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@mgautierfr Sorry I don't know what to do. I could find the place similar to line 29 of the patch in configure.ac, but I have no idea how to modify configure.ac to echo value of ac_res.

BTW, could you please check if my rebase of apple_platforms is done correctly? Thanks.

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@mgautierfr @automactic Is that ticket still valid? Even if this is still not perfect, I think a lot of progress has been done meanwhile on OSX (cross-) compilation!?

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No feedback, assuming problem has been solved.

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