Mac OS X 10.4 building rekall 2.3.4

It sure looks to me like Apple's python 2.3.5 (the one installed with  
system 10.3.4) coughs up a hairball in response to:

distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars("LINKFORSHARED")

the answer being

'-u __dummy -u _PyMac_Error -framework System Python.framework/ 
Versions/2.3/Python -framework CoreServices -framework Foundation'

instead of

'-u __dummy -u _PyMac_Error -framework System -framework Python - 
framework CoreServices -framework Foundation'

grumble, grumble

In addition, I found I had to make the following changes to rkMacPak.py:

--- ./rekall/scons/rkMacPak.py    2005-05-17 14:05:24.000000000 -0400
+++ ./rekallCVS20050518/scons/rkMacPak.py    2005-05-21  
21:38:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
def writePkgInfo   (appName, prefix = None) :
-    if prefix is None : prefix = '.'
+    if prefix is None : prefix = ''
      prefix = destDir + prefix
#   print prefix + '/' + appName + '.app/Contents/PkgInfo'
-    pkgInfo    = open (prefix + '/' + appName + '.app/Contents/ 
PkgInfo', 'w')
+    pkgInfo    = open (prefix + appName + '.app/Contents/PkgInfo', 'w')
      pkgInfo.write  ('APPL????\n')
      pkgInfo.close  () ;
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
      qt3Spec = string.replace (qt3Spec, '@ICON@',        
'application.icns')
      qt3Spec = string.replace (qt3Spec, '@EXECUTABLE@', appName)
-    if prefix is None : prefix = '.'
+    if prefix is None : prefix = ''
      prefix = destDir + prefix
#   print prefix + '/' + appName + '.app/Contents/Info.plist'
-    infList = open (prefix + '/' + appName + '.app/Contents/ 
Info.plist', 'w')
+    infList = open (prefix + appName + '.app/Contents/Info.plist', 'w')
      infList.write  (qt3Spec)
      infList.close  ()
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@
      try    : os.stat  (destDir + dir)
      except : os.mkdir (destDir + dir)
-writePkgInfo    ('RekallManual', appName + '.app/Helpers')
-writeInfoPlist    ('RekallManual', appName + '.app/Helpers')
+writePkgInfo    ('RekallManual', appName + '.app/Helpers/')
+writeInfoPlist    ('RekallManual', appName + '.app/Helpers/')
srce    = destDir + appName + '.app/Contents/MacOS/RekallManual'
dest    = destDir + appName + '.app/Helpers/RekallManual.app/Contents/ 
MacOS/RekallManual'


some tool is being a lot pickier about path designations, I guess.

Having made the changes (along with 'sudo gcc_select 3.3' ), Rekall  
2.3.4text (CVS version on 5/18/2005) will build and run under Mac OS  
X 10.4. I built against Qt 3.3.4 compiled under OS X 10.3.something.

A small discrepency lingers, in that the application displays a  
generic app icon in Finder, rather than the Rekall icon. The icon  
thing worked properly for me in 10.3.8.

I haven't tested a lot, but it seems OK for the simple stuff.

Dave