Re: [gtk-osx-users] install_name_tool error when bundling

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:16 AM, cch (english) <cch heonium com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I try to bundle a pygtk application on mac osx lion mountain with gtk-mac-bunbler and when i run it the 
> following error appear. Seeing this I try bundler the demo app and I get the same error.
>
> Does anyone have a working track to solve this problem.
>
> install_name_tool: can't open input file: 
> /Users/gtkosx5/Desktop/.PyGtkDemo.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libpython2.7.dylib for writing (Permission 
> denied)
> install_name_tool: can't lseek to offset: 0 in file: 
> /Users/gtkosx5/Desktop/.PyGtkDemo.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libpython2.7.dylib for writing (Bad file 
> descriptor)
> install_name_tool: can't write new headers in file: 
> /Users/gtkosx5/Desktop/.PyGtkDemo.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libpython2.7.dylib (Bad file descriptor)
> install_name_tool: can't close written on input file: 
> /Users/gtkosx5/Desktop/.PyGtkDemo.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libpython2.7.dylib (Bad file descriptor)
>
> thank you very much

Yes, it's a permissions issue. Python wrote their makefile to install libpython read-only and the bundler 
needs to change its internal rpaths. Just 
  chmod +w $PREFIX/lib/libpython2.7.dylib
and re-run the bundler.

Regards,
John Ralls