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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These look good to me.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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