On 08/mag/2014, at 08:10, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/07/2014 02:17 AM, jp charras wrote: >> Le 07/05/2014 05:07, Jean-Paul Louis a écrit : >>> Hi Marco, >>> >>> I just finished building BZR4854 according to your instructions, and >>> still kicad does not work properly on OSX. >>> >>> See screen capture below. >>> I remember exchanging emails with Dick in this mailing list, and there was >>> a fix for that, but it was never applied to the source code for OS X on the >>> repository. >>> >>> The behavior of the kicad buttons is still not consistent. the first three >>> (3) using kiface symlink are working fine, but the other four (4) are not. >>> So we have three separate behaviors. >>> Buttons 1, 2 and 3 are fine (thanks to symlink). >>> Buttons 4, 5 and 6 start the application minimized, so we need to go to the >>> dock, and click on the icon to open the app window. >>> Button 7 does not work as the app (pl_editor) open and close immediately. >>> >>> Please see Dick for his insights on how to fix it. He was very helpful to >>> me when you were not responding to the issues. I will be back home after >>> May 12th, so I will have more time to give you feedback inn the new builds. >>> >>> Last, I am not sure how to install properly the libraries. Is there a >>> script that will work for OS X? Something that I could add to my script >>> (Bash script BuildKicad-OSX) attached to have everything at once. >>> >>> Thank you for your help. >>> >>> Jean-Paul >>> AC9GH >> >> I do not know anything to OSX, but it is for me an unix system. >> >> Therefore I am thinking your script is missing something. in section: >> echo Fixing kicad.app issue with three symlinks to kiface for eeschema, >> cvpcb and pcbnew >> cd ${INSTALL_DIR}/kicad.app/Contents/MacOS/ >> ln -s >> ~/Soft_Dev/kicad-build/eeschema/eeschema.app/Contents/MacOS/_eeschema.kiface >> . >> ln -s ~/Soft_Dev/kicad-build/cvpcb/cvpcb.app/Contents/MacOS/_cvpcb.kiface . >> ln -s >> ~/Soft_Dev/kicad-build/pcbnew/pcbnew.app/Contents/MacOS/_pcbnew.kiface . >> >> Symbolic links are made for eeschema, cvpcb and pcbnew only. >> They are missing for gerbview, pcb_calculator and pl_editor. >> This is strange for me. >> >> You should have 6 symlinks, not 3. >>
Jean-Paul, If you do symbolic links in that way the binaries: will not work on another system or if you remove binaries from Soft_Dev. Those are ABSOLUTE links, if you wish distribute those you will need relative ones. > > Currently only those 3 binaries are loaded as kiface files, i.e. in process. > The rest of > the binaries are loaded as new processes, because I was unable to find a > compelling reason > not to do so. They tend to edit files which are not as tightly bound to each > other as > > *.sch and *.kicad_pcb are. > > The problem with the Mac will continue under such circumstances. When the > executable is > launched as a separate process, not an in-process kiface, then the Mac seems > shy about > bringing it to the top of the world. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1154859 > It is not a bug in Kicad, it is a bug in the Mac OS as far as I can see. It > really is of > no interest to me anymore. > > Furthermore having OSX scripts do things that the CMakeLists.txt file should > be doing is > curious to me. I really don't care to participate. AFAIAC, the entire Mac > support should > can be kept in a separate branch until the project has an English speaking > Mac developer > who can cooperate as part of a team. > There's no reason a single patch file cannot be maintained that overlays a > working tree. > These patches are easy to generate simply by doing a diff from the merge of a > Mac branch. > > My Mac patch handled these issues in the CMakeLists.txt files, where policy > like this > should be made. There are two ways to approach the world: the first is be self-referenced, the second is to learn something from the difference and understand that those differences could be an enrichment. This happens also for OSes: This is the challenge of this project, and why has its appeal for the world. I wish suggest you also to think what happened if someone has used your same sentence changing English with French some years ago. — Marco _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
