Re: XDarwin.app is installed with symlinks inside MainMenu.nib bundles, app won't launch.

Le 07-04-15 à 14:55, Marc Aurele La France a écrit :

> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, SciFi wrote:
>
>> 6.  XDarwin.app is installed with symlinks inside MainMenu.nib
>> bundles, app won't launch.
>
> ...
>> Discussion:
>
>> The make-install process is creating/copying symlinks for the
>> innards of the MainMenu.nib bundles instead of copying the actual
>> files.  This is for each language inside the installed XDarwin.app
>> bundle itself.
>
>> As installed, we'll see errors in console.log concerning the
>> language couldn't be loaded, and the app will fail to launch.
>
>> This is what we _should_ see in the installed app-bundle after
>> repaired by hand:
>> $ cd /Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ 
>> MainMenu.nib
>> $ ls -alL
>> total 28
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 scifi wheel   170 2007-04-04 11:05 .
>> dr-xr-xr-x 7 root  wheel   238 2007-04-11 02:26 ..
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scifi wheel  2369 2003-10-16 18:50 classes.nib
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 scifi wheel 20640 2003-10-16 18:50 objects.nib
>
>> The xf86 installer is creating those two .nib files as symlinks to
>> somewhere in the build/ tree, which further are symlinks
>> elsewhere.  OSX don't like it that way.  ;)
>
>> Each/every MainMenu.nib in all *.lproj (language) subdirs are
>> affected this way.
>
>> I don't know how to fix this in Makefiles etc.  I ended up using
>> Finder to drag-copy these from the real xc/ tree (not the build/
>> tree) directly into the installed /Application/XDarwin.app bundle
>> itself.
>
> I don't see anywhere in `make install` that would create symlinks  
> for these. So, I suspect this is artifact is due to a combination  
> of the way XCode normally operates and your use of shadow trees for  
> builds (a practice I highly recommend BTW).  There might be a way  
> to coerce XCode into following symlinks either through a command  
> line flag, the project file, so some other mechanism.  Please  
> investigate.

There already is a bug opened that XDarwin won't build in shadow tree.

http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182

As mentionned there, once the right files are copied to replace  
symlinks, everything go on smoothly.

I think the "right files" (TM)  were xc/programs/Xserver/hw/darwin/ 
bundle

yves