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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for everyone's input.

I do not think he has KISYSMOD set, because of how tricky it is in OS X to
set environment variables for graphical apps, but I will check after he
replies to my last barrage of questions.

I only know of one person having the issue.  I will start the 4.0.0 build
now :)

Worse case, someone else has the problem and I dig in more and make a
4.0.0-2, no problem.

Thanks everyone!  (I can't believe we're finally releasing 4.0.0, I feel
like I should make a cake or something!)

Adam Wolf

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 12/3/2015 3:08 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.
>
> If others are having this issue as well, I would say wait.  If he is the
> only one having this issue, I say go ahead and roll out the 4.0.0 stable
> release.  I'm guessing a 4.0.1 stable release will happen this weekend
> since there is a patch to fix the gal canvas segment drag issue which I
> don't want to leave unresolved for users.
>
> >
> > 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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