Re: Mac build and Help app

On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:29 AM, Mike Richardson wrote:

[lots o' snip]
>>
>> Before remembering to run rkMacPak.py, trying to run RekallManual
>> directly launched a terminal window with the output:
>> FTHelp: cwd   = /Users/dbr          (i.e., my home directory, the
>> parent to the source directory)
>>     helpdir   =  (null)
>>     helpkey = (null)
>>     helpport = 0
>
> try
>
> RekallManual --helpdir /path-to-dir-with-help-files/
>
> the trailing / is needed:)

The manual is getting stomped by my dylib naming 'fix' --  RekallManual 
is looking for the dylibs relative to its location, but they're 
installed relative to Rekall's location. Rats. I'll have to try to 
figure out Helper apps and what I could do to clean up my patch.

If I copy the RekallManual executable to the same subdir as the main 
Rekall app and use your command:

dbr% /Applications/Rekall.app/Contents/MacOS/RekallManual --helpdir 
/Applications/Rekall.app/Contents/Resources/Data/manual/

The terminal window reports:
FTHelp: cwd     =/Applications/Rekall.app/Contents/MacOS
         helpdir 
=/Applications/Rekall.app/Contents/Resources/Data/manual/
         helpkey =(null)
         helpport=0
SOHelpChooser::loadHelp: 
[/Applications/Rekall.app/Contents/Resources/Data/manual/rekall.xml]

At which point the process  stalls. No error message, but no visible 
activity of any kind. Not too surprising given that I've mucked with 
locations...

Dave

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