Hi Wayne, I have already sent my concerns and what i am stuck on and have had no response so at this point i am unable to help sorry
On 21 February 2017 at 07:28, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > Simon, > > I'm going to commits Dick's original patch as soon as possible. I want > to know if you (or anyone else who can fix the osx part of this) will be > available to fix the osx part of this before I commit it to minimize the > amount of time we have broken builds for osx. > > Thanks, > > Wayne > > On 2/13/2017 9:24 AM, Simon Wells wrote: >> Error copying file "_pcbnew.kiface" to "_pcbnew.so". >> >> attached is dicks patch with my changes >> >> On 14 February 2017 at 03:15, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 2/12/2017 5:15 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 12 Feb 2017, at 22:18, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 2/12/2017 5:37 AM, Simon Wells wrote: >>>>>> i am stuck on the below as i do not understand whats trying to be >>>>>> achieved doing this >>>>>> >>>>>> # For phase 1, copy _pcbnew.kiface to the python module. line onward >>>>>> (line 733ish) >>>>>> >>>>>> until the end of the if, and its broken for me. >>>>> >>>>> It should just be a copy of the _pcbnew.kiface to the python library >>>>> with the correct python extension for python to a folder where python >>>>> can find it. I'm not sure what the file extension is or where the >>>>> python library install path is in osx. I can check with Dick but I'm >>>>> pretty sure by looking at the patch that is what it does. >>>> >>>> Did this (I guess it is using pcbnew stuff from machines python >>>> installation, not the python form inside pcbnew) ever work on macOS? >>>> >>>> That doesn’t really make sense on macOS with application bundles (IMHO). >>>> The install step is just an intermediate step to create the initial bundle >>>> on the build machine. >>>> If you install it to some python folder on the build machine, it won’t get >>>> anywhere on a users machine when installing (== copying) the bundle (the >>>> bundle is not more than a folder, so you don’t really “install” anything). >>>> >>>> One thing would probably be to create an own installer/bundle for this >>>> python stuff, which puts things in the right places on the destination >>>> machine. I don’t know if this is easily possible, because you could have >>>> more than one python installed and I don’t know about paths in libs. >>>> Or, put it inside the bundle and let user handle it on his own (by >>>> symlinking, whatever…). >>>> >>>> Same fun will come up on Linux with AppImage stuff (and the other similar >>>> approaches)… >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Bernhard >>>> >>> >>> Please send me the build output for the build failure with this patch. >>> Dick offered to try to resolve it but he needs the build log. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
