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

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Yves de Champlain wrote:
>> 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

> OK.  Thanks for the info.  The attached patch should fix this.

The change I attached has now been committed.  Thanks for reporting the 
problem.

Marc.

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