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

On Wed, 16 May 2007, SciFi wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:29:12 -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
>>> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Yves de Champlain wrote:
>>>> 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.

> Took a while to get back here to report.

> I built the current cvs as of the date of this msg (gee why can't
> cvs just give us a simple "revision number" as svn can...).

> The XDarwin.app that got installed into /Applications *again* has
> the symlinks inside the MainMenu nibs for all languages.  Just to
> be sure, I moved the previous build out of the way for a clean
> copy to be put there.

> I did this build to apply the test patches from bug #1683; I've
> updated that record with good results.  A "cvs up" will show 'M'
> as expected for those files that were modified from those patches
> of course.  I don't think those patches had anything to do with
> this problem with XDarwin.app.

> The nibs built under e.g.
> build2/programs/Xserver/hw/darwin/bundle/English.lproj/
> have symlinks.  Shouldn't use them for bundling into the final .app.
> The nibs built under e.g.
> build2/programs/Xserver/hw/darwin/quartz/build/Development/XDarwin.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
> are OKAY.
> The latter are the .lproj trees I used to "fix" the XDarwin.app
> installed into /Applications manually via Finder drag&drop
> directly into the .app bundle.

> Wish I could help diagnose this more, this is perplexing.
> I'll try testing anything if someone comes up with something.

You might need to might need to manually remove what was previously 
installed before running `make install` again.

Marc.

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