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. Marc. +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Academic Information and | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | Communications Technologies | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | 352 General Services Building +----------------------------------+ | University of Alberta | | | Edmonton, Alberta | Standard disclaimers apply | | T6G 2H1 | | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals.
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