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

On Thu, 17 May 2007, SciFi wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:24:31 -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 May 2007, SciFi wrote:
>>> 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.

> I did -- I meant I moved what was installed previously at
> /Applications so make install would put a completely new fresh
> XDarwin.app there, no old copy to get it mixed up, whilst keeping
> a backup of it "just in case".

Oops.  Sorry about that.

> Really, I know enough what to do like this.
> Sometimes the words don't say it right, esp. way past bedtime.  ;)

> I'm totally out of ideas on this...

I'm not.  At least, not yet.  Please try the attached patch.

Thanks.

Marc.

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