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[Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear KiCad Developers,

I have attached a patch that changes a few small things to improve some build helper scripts for use on Mac OSX:

1) Make patches/wxwidgets-3.0.2_macosx_yosemite.patch usable: There were complaints here before that the patch does not work because it is a "metapatch" that tries to patch another patch (which is not in the tree and therefore fails). With this change, it becomes a normal patch again, that can be applied to the wxWidgets source tree as described in Documentation/compiling/mac-osx.txt.

2) Make scripts/library-repos-install.sh compatible with OSX: This involves checking for the correct option to enable extended regular expressions in sed during detect_pretty_repos, as the script uses "-r", which is only available in GNU sed. The sed shipped with Mac OSX is an older BSD descendant sed which needs "-E". This change has been tested to work on Mac OSX 10.10.1 and on an up-to-date Arch Linux. I also changed the error message during --install-prerequisites to inform users without apt-get or yum which programs need to be installed to use the script.

3) Add the execute flag to scripts/osx_build_wx.sh: At the moment, after fetching the source with bzr, one has to chmod the file by hand. This change change ensures consistency between the script and the build docs for OSX, which assumes the script to be executable.


And, I really want to say thank you to all the people involved in the development of KiCad. You are doing an amazing job! To an electronics hobbyist like me, having a free EDA solution at one's disposal is simply invaluable. Perhaps, my patch can improve the experience for people on Mac OSX still a little more.


Best,

Johannes

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