guix/gnu/packages/patches/gobject-introspection-absolute-shlib-path.patch

# Names of libraries included in typelib files are opened by dlopen.  Here we 
# add the full path.
#
# This patch was provided by Luca Bruno <lucabru@src.gnome.org>  for 
# 'gobject-introspection' 1.40.0 in Nix. 
--- ./giscanner/utils.py.orig	2014-08-14 22:05:05.055334080 +0200
+++ ./giscanner/utils.py	2014-08-14 22:05:24.687497334 +0200
@@ -110,17 +110,11 @@
     if dlname is None:
         return None
 
-    # Darwin uses absolute paths where possible; since the libtool files never
-    # contain absolute paths, use the libdir field
-    if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
-        dlbasename = os.path.basename(dlname)
-        libdir = _extract_libdir_field(la_file)
-        if libdir is None:
-            return dlbasename
-        return libdir + '/' + dlbasename
-    # From the comments in extract_libtool(), older libtools had
-    # a path rather than the raw dlname
-    return os.path.basename(dlname)
+    dlbasename = os.path.basename(dlname)
+    libdir = _extract_libdir_field(la_file)
+    if libdir is None:
+        return dlbasename
+    return libdir + '/' + dlbasename
 
 
 def extract_libtool(la_file):