two handy improvements to the osx packager

[anonymous]

1. use a generic download address for sourceforge and let them decide which mirror is best. This is as simple as telling curl to follow redirects.

2. add an option to *not* eject the build image when the script is done. I've been developing/debugging on my Mac and it's a major annoyance to have my source tree ejected after each build!

[gnassas@…]

noticed the libcss link is dead, updated patch to d/l from videolan.org

[anonymous]

does this actually work on your mac? I can't get one to actually run at all. It builds but when it is launched all it does just bounces into the dock. See ticket #3657

[gnassas@…]

does this actually work on your mac? See ticket #3657

Yes, it does and I posted something into -dev about that ticket. In short if you can make use of a PPC frontend let me know and I'll put it up somewhere.

My take is that chit-chatting in trac is discouraged so you should be replying to the messages in -commits which then gets sent out on -dev.

• George

[Nigel]

(In [13760]) Update download link, allow Curl to redirect (-L). See #3658

[Nigel]

Half of George's patch applied. Still thinking about the extra option.

[gnassas@…]

Still thinking about the extra option.

What's not to like? ;)

The other thing that occurred to me after I posted was to expose the --compile-type=debug/release configure option. Currently you have to uncomment the mythtv entry in the conf hash and add something for plugins but it seems odd to tweak the script for something that should be there in the first place.

• George

[Nigel]

1. I wasn't keen on adding another mount option. Technically, it isn't needed. To get around the unmount inconvenience, I made a few disk images that I mount before running the build. e.g. did the following:

   osx-packager.pl                                         # Creates the initial disk image
   mv .osx-packager.dmg MythOSX-SVN.dmg                    # Give it a better file name ...
   hdiutil attach MythOSX-SVN.dmg
   diskutil rename /Volumes/MythTvPackagerHDImage MythDev  #                 and mount name
   mkdir /Volumes/MythDev/.osx-packager                    # Move everything into it
   mv /Volumes/MythDev/* /Volumes/MythDev/.osx-packager
   mv osx-packager.pl /Volumes/MythDev
   

That way, there is one file that I can double-click and cd into that contains everything (even final .apps).

2. The "have to create a case-sensitive volume to get around badly-named files" problem is probably not even the case at the moment?

But, to close this ticket, I will add the options anyway.

[Nigel]

(In [13875]) Extra options to keep disk image mounted after a successful build, and to perform debug and profile builds. Closes #3658