Hi Ben, Applications launched from Finder and Spotlight get environment variables from ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist (before 10.8) their own Info.plist (10.8) and launchd (system-wide) and not .tcshrc etc.
Sounds like to get the updater to work from Finder for all users you have to set your $CCP4 in launchd.conf Not sure if it's worth the effort. The environment is probably set correctly (somewhere) on the machine that was used to install CCP4... http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/57385/where-are-system-environment-variables-set-in-mountain-lion http://www.dowdandassociates.com/content/howto-set-environment-variable-mac-os-x-etclaunchdconf Dmitry On 2012-10-12, at 3:46 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 06:20:59PM +0000, Ronan Keegan wrote: >> Dear CCP4 Users, >> >> A CCP4 update has just been released, consisting of the following changes: > > Hi Ronan et al, > > The update client on OS X doesn't seem to like our installation and dies > with: > > Can't make <<class cfol>> of alias > "programs:i386-mac:ccp4:6.3.0:lib_exec:Update.app:" into type Unicode text > > But I found an odd workaround. If I double-click the Update.app in Finder, > I get the administrator password prompt, enter the credentials, and then > the updater tells me that $CCP4 is unset, etc. > > I can then run 'open Update.app' from the shell, and it inherits $CCP4 and > runs correctly. > > Any ideas? The workaround works, but since I don't really know why, I don't > feel particularly good about it. > > Also, my installation is on NFS and is not owned by root, so it doesn't > require administrator privileges to update. It would be nice if the > application checked for write privileges before assuming it needs to be run > with escalated privileges. > > -ben > > -- > | Ben Eisenbraun > | SBGrid Consortium | http://sbgrid.org | > | Harvard Medical School | http://hms.harvard.edu |
