OS X/Quartz create a bundle fails

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 10 June 2010, John Ralls wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 June 2010, John Ralls wrote:
> >> On Jun 10, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 10 June 2010, John Ralls wrote:
> >>>> Try pulling ige-mac-bundler. I had some changes that I hadn't pushed,
> >>>> and just did.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> John Ralls
> >>>
> >>> That takes care of the illegal src attribute for the binary tag.
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Next issue I run into:
> >>> bash-3.2$ ige-mac-bundler gnucash-unstable.bundle
> >>> Cannot find source to copy: /Users/janssege/gnucash-
> >>> unstable/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C/gnucash-help
> >>>
> >>> There is indeed no such directory on my system. Do you perhaps build
> >>> gnucash- svn with a different configuration in you local
> >>> .jhbuildrc-custom which pulls in the gnucash documentation as well ?
> >>
> >> Yes, I build gnucash-docs-svn (or gnucash-docs for a stable build) as
> >> the last target in my "modules" list. It would probably make more sense
> >> for you to just comment out the documentation element in the bundle
> >> file. Depending on what you're doing, you may also want to comment out
> >> the translations elements as well.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> >
> > I'm asking all these questions to be able to improve the documentation...
> >
> > I have disabled the docs part for now. Next missing piece:
> > /Library/Frameworks/Stripped/QtCore.framework
> >
> > I have /Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework
> > So it seems we have selected different Qt downloads. Where did you get
> > the "Stripped" ones that are referred to in the bundle file ?
> 
> I think that I made them by running "find /path/to/Qt -name *.dylib --exec
>  strip \{\} \;" . That's probably not something you need to worry about; I
>  did it because of complaints about the download size. The easy solution
>  for you is to just make the path line up, but perhaps I should change the
>  paths around on my build machine.
> 
> > I'm mainly building on OS X (and Win32) to make sure my changes won't
> > bluntly break the build on other platforms. On OS X this means I also
> > should test the installer, because of it's custom launcher script that's
> > not part of the gnucash source repository. I'm very happy with gnucash OS
> > X. While I don't use it myself very often, I've got several OS X using
> > friends that are or would be well served by it.
> >
> > As a side goal, I use this opportunity to proof-read the wiki
> > documentation on building gnucash on OS X. I have the advantage to start
> > from an empty setup, so I quickly notice anything that is undocumented or
> > silently assumes extra steps.
> >
> > The wiki page doesn't mention anything about gnucash-docs-svn or
> > gnucash-docs. So when strictly following the steps outlined in there, I
> > think "Making a Bundle" will fail, is that correct ?
> 
> Yes, obviously, since it did for you.
> 
> There's a fundamental conflict in the gnucash bundle between things that
>  are needed to make a distributable bundle and what an individual needs for
>  a single local installation. The wiki goes in one direction, the actual
>  scripts go in another. Lacking any indication that anyone is actually
>  doing any building or bundling, I haven't done anything with the wiki
>  since the last time you bugged me about it, but I have changed the scripts
>  and modules to deal with complaints about not having translations and to
>  integrate external changes (like the new version of ige-mac-integration).
>  I'll put some time in today to get the wiki reflecting everything I do to
>  build the distribution. After all, if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, it
>  should be possible for someone else to take over the OSX maintenance.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
Thanks, I appreciate that.

By the way, the framework stuff was the last bit. I have managed to build me a 
bundle now and will happily go on playing with it/debugging any changes I 
make.

Geert