While testing a little bit, here is maybe another helpful insight: after
downloading the ooRexx
installation package it is possible without super-user power to remove the
quarantine attribute
using Renés example:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ooRexx-5.0.0-12280.macOS.x86_64.dmg
Then installing ooRexx by opening the dmg-file and following the installation
directions yields a
working installation in /Applications/ooRexx5!
---rony
On 16.07.2021 14:27, René Jansen wrote:
> Running
>
> sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine $YOUR_DIRECTORY
>
> mostly helps.
>
> René
>
>> On 16 Jul 2021, at 14:10, P.O. Jonsson <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> What version of MacOS are we talking about? In the past extracting the .dmg
>> caused a warning that
>> could be overwritten but I never experienced that rexx would not launch? Is
>> this a M1 thing only?
>> Or „Fat Binary“ problem? Does it help to install to ~/Applications (a local
>> install) rather than
>> to /Applications (Install for all users)?
>>
>> I run High Sierra (10.13) and the build machine runs Mojave (10.14). In view
>> of the age of the
>> build machine (~ late 2014) I would not go beyond Catalina (10.15) and I see
>> no gain in changing,
>> just risk of running into problems with outdated hardware.
>>
>> We do not have at our disposal any machine with macOS Big Sur (11.1) that
>> can run on either Intel
>> or M1 hardware.
>>
>> What I can try to do is to see if I can get some Virtual Machines set up
>> with Catalina/Big Sur.
>> But it will not be on M1 hardware.
>>
>> Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse,
>> P.O. Jonsson
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Am 16.07.2021 um 13:47 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>>
>>> Downloaded the latest MacOS version of ooRexx 5.0 from the ooRexx project
>>> page at sourceforge.
>>>
>>> It turns out that Apple inhibits using anything from that dmg as it was
>>> downloaded from the
>>> Internet and not from Apple's store! :(
>>>
>>> This is due to Apple's "security policy" that they put in effect, which
>>> simply deprive the
>>> owners of those Apple computers.
>>>
>>> Here are two use cases, each demonstrated with an attached screenshot:
>>>
>>> * Scenario 1: installing ooRexx according to the readme will create
>>> "/Application/ooRexx5"
>>> with the "bin", "lib" etc directories. Trying to run
>>> "/Application/ooRexx5/bin/rexx -v"
>>> causes "Screenshot 2021-07-16 at 12.46.04.png" to pop up. Apple
>>> suggests to move the program
>>> to the bin! :-(
>>>
>>> * Scenario 2: using Finder to "open" (run)
>>> "/Application/ooRexx5/bin/rexx" yields at first a
>>> pop up that seems to indicate, that further opening would allow the
>>> program to run from now
>>> on, cf. "Screenshot 2021-07-16 at 12.53.17.png". However when "rexx"
>>> loads the
>>> "librexx.4.dylib" the "Move to Bin" popup as above gets displayed!
>>>
>>> Probably turning off SIP
>>> (<https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/208478/how-do-i-disable-system-integrity-protection-sip-aka-rootless-on-macos-os-x>)
>>> will allow this to work again, however, asking users to turn off SIP may be
>>> too much.
>>>
>>> The alternative would be to get and use the keys from Apple and use them to
>>> sign the ooRexx
>>> executables.
>>>
>>> The question then is, who should apply/buy this: RexxLA or some individual
>>> developer in this
>>> group who signs the releases? Who is going to pursue this?
>>>
>>> ---rony
>>>
>>> P.S.: @Enrico: this may be also the reason why on M1 with a stricter
>>> "security policy" in place
>>> would not pick the amd64 binaries from the fat distribution! If you look at
>>> the first screen
>>> shot you can read "Reason: no suitable image found.", the same error
>>> message as on M1, but here
>>> there is additional information pointing ad "Library Validation: ..." that
>>> fails.
>>>
>>> This behavior might not be present if you create ooRexx on the M1 and run
>>> it from there, as then
>>> the binaries did not come from "insecure locations" according to Apple
>>> (which is the Internet
>>> and locations that are not under the control of Apple software).
>>>
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