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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <bobgus@xxxxxxx> 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
>
>
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