There should be no absolute paths in the caches for anything under regular cluster installation and userdir. There are even tests to make sure that is true. They pass OK on Linux. One of them is known to fail on Windows:
https://builds.apache.org/job/incubator-netbeans-windows/lastCompletedBuild/ testReport/org.netbeans.core.startup.layers/CachingPreventsFileTouchesTest/ testCachesDontUseAbsolutePaths/ We don't test on Mac OS X as far as I know. -jt Dne středa 2. ledna 2019 0:22:29 CET, Emilian Bold napsal(a): > If somebody downloads to ~/Downloads and starts the app from there the > userdir on macOS will be in ~/Library/Application Support/ so there's > no relative path between them and the paths are stored as absolute > ("abs" identification). > > I suspect the saving netbeans.home in lastModified/all-checksum.txt > fixes the problem since it will invalidate the cache: > > diff --git a/platform/o.n.bootstrap/src/org/netbeans/Stamps.java > b/platform/o.n.bootstrap/src/org/netbeans/Stamps.java > index e41c90897..7231bd827 100644 > --- a/platform/o.n.bootstrap/src/org/netbeans/Stamps.java > +++ b/platform/o.n.bootstrap/src/org/netbeans/Stamps.java > @@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ public final class Stamps { > String[] relativeDirs = Clusters.relativeDirsWithHome(); > String home = System.getProperty ("netbeans.home"); // NOI18N > if (home != null) { > + sb.append("home=").append(home).append("\n"); > long stamp = stampForCluster (new File (home), result, > newestFile, processedDirs, checkStampFile, true, null); > > sb.append(relativeDirs[0]).append('=').append(stamp).append('\n'); } > > Does this make sense? I wonder why I can't reproduce it with 8.2? > > --emi > > http://coolbeans.xyz/ - CoolBeans: An IDE for Java, JavaEE, PHP and more! > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 11:58 PM Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm still investigating but it seems to me that under some conditions > > absolute paths are saved in all-resources.dat (and the other .dat > > files). > > > > Problem is that if the user moves the application to another folder > > (like from the Desktop to /Applications) then the IDE doesn't start > > because it can't find any module! (Module could not be found... > > ignoring). > > > > So, is there something rather obvious to anyone going on here? > > > > I suspect I will best reproduce this with a Platform app packaged as > > macOS, but that script has another (unrelated) error which I also have > > to report. > > > > --emi > > > > http://coolbeans.xyz/ - CoolBeans: An IDE for Java, JavaEE, PHP and more! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
