A good one! But alas, we have them drag and drop a kicad/ directory onto a symlink to /Library/Application\ Support/, and it does a popup asking for admin privileges. (We also have this in the README right there when you install).
It's certainly got me puzzled! On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Bob Gustafson <bob...@rcn.com> wrote: > Maybe it is a 'first time use problem' - maybe no kicad directory in the > /Library/Application Support/. It may require a privilege password to add > this directory the first time. > > A thought anyway. > > Bob G > > > On 12/03/2015 02:08 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > > Hi folks! > > A user is having a problem with the latest OS X RC2 release, and I haven't > been able to figure it out. > > Quick background: > > There is a KiCad package, and a KiCad Extras package. The KiCad Extras > package has a modules/ directory in it, and it has all the footprints. > It's for offline use. It also has an fp-table-lib, which uses KISYSMOD to > point at the modules, like this: > > (lib (name Capacitors_SMD)(type KiCad)(uri > ${KISYSMOD}/Capacitors_SMD.pretty)(options "")(descr "The way you like > them.")) > > My builds have DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH set to /Library/Application > Support/kicad, like I want them to. I checked the build output, and it > shows: > > -- Kicad install dir: </Library/Application Support/kicad> > > Great, awesome, exactly like I want it. > > On the other hand--we have a user, who newly installed KiCad on his Mac, > and it looks like his KISYSMOD is being set to a path on the build system, > probably CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. ( > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1426754) (This was happening > previously, and I started to set DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH, and things got > better for people after they cleared their preferences.) > > As far as I can tell, those defaults are set in common/pgm_base.cpp, and > the only Mac specific ifdef is to not include /share/kicad/ in KISYSMOD's > path. (Which is correct.) > > I cleared all my KiCad preferences and reinstalled the same package he did > (as part of testing the RC2, like I do with most significant builds) and > did not have this issue. > > The only possible issue I see when looking for DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH stuff > for OS X is in common/systemdirsappend.cpp, in void SystemDirsAppend( > SEARCH_STACK* aSearchStack ). Instead of adding DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH, it > uses some OS X specific functions, but those seem to be working fine. > > So. This is happening to a user, and I cannot reproduce it, but I'm > worried about releasing 4.0.0 on OS X without more information. I know of > 30+ installs of 4.0.0 RC2 that *didn't* have this issue for Jimmy, but I > suspect they all had existing preference files. > > 1) Does anyone have any insight? > > 2) Should this hold up the 4.0.0 package for OS X? I have no real qualms > about doing this and then releasing a 4.0.0-2 as soon as this gets figured > out. > > 3) A possible hack that would fix this could be to change the fp-table-lib > included with the extras package to point to the exact same place as the > symlink--i.e. expand out KISYSMOD. I actually don't necessarily see a huge > problem with this--if a user wants to install the files somewhere else than > the default package does it, they are probably capable of a search/replace > in a text editor. > > I'd rather fix the real issue, but being that I cannot reproduce it after > ~3 hours, I'm not sure I want to say "I'm not going to cut a 4.0.0 release > until this is fixed." > > Thoughts? > > Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > W&L > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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