Although my main machine is a Mac running Snow Leopard, I normally use
the X11 version of GnuCash. However this week I decided to give the
Quartz version a try to see what it is like. I downloaded the app
bundle from sourceforge and gave it a try (as well as building it from
source various ways). The app bundle worked well, but I have a few
suggestions.
First, I noticed that the About dialog says it's version 2.4.5 built on
2011-04-05 from r20417. However, r20417 is actually version 2.4.4 from
about 2011-03-13. I don't know which is wrong, the version number or
the SVN revision, but they are inconsistent. Version 2.4.5 was the
first from the new 2.4 branch, perhaps the code that gets the SVN
revision doesn't work if it's not on trunk.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, I think you can easily fix up the
dbus mess if you upgrade dbus to a newer version. I don't know what
version of dbus you're packaging with the app (it would be useful if
sources.txt included version numbers to answer questions like this),
but all versions since 1.4.1 have included support to integrate dbus
with launchd on MacOSX. If you use this you can avoid starting dbus at
all and let launchd do it for you.
I patched the script in the app bundle as indicated in the attached
patch and it seems to work fine using dbus 1.4.8 installed via
MacPorts. I had to replace libdbus-1.3.dylib in the app bundle, but
otherwise everything is unchanged. My patch assumes the path for the
MacPorts dbus, you'll have to change the ln command to point to the
launchd plist wherever you put it in the bundle.
Mike
--- /Volumes/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.5/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
2010-12-18 17:21:56.000000000 -0500
+++ /Applications/Gnucash/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash 2011-05-18
16:52:54.000000000 -0400
@@ -98,21 +98,12 @@
fi
fi
-if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
- # If we get here without a way to connect to an instance of dbus-daemon,
- # then we can kill any existing instances of dbus-daemon that originate
- # in this copy of Gnucash.
-
- DBUS_PIDS=`ps ux | grep dbus-daemon | grep "${PREFIX}" | awk '{print $2}'`
-
- if /bin/test "$DBUS_PIDS"; then
- for DBUS_PID in ${DBUS_PIDS}
- do
- /bin/kill "${DBUS_PID}"
- done
- fi
-
- eval `"$PREFIX/bin/dbus-launch" --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
--config-file="$bundle_res/etc/dbus-1/session.conf"`
+# See if the DBUS session bus is registered in launchd and register it if not
+if [ "x`launchctl list | grep 'org\.freedesktop\.dbus-session'`" == x ]; then
+ if [ ! -e ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist ]; then
+ ln -s
/opt/local/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents
+ fi
+ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
fi
GNC_MODULE_PATH="${RESPFX}/lib/gnucash:${GNC_MODULE_PATH}"
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