Re: [gtk-osx-users] Bundling with absolute path for binary.

[Pascal <p p14 orange fr>]

> Le 3 févr. 2020 à 22:19, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us> a écrit :
>
> > On Feb 3, 2020, at 12:38 PM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I modify the bundle spec with an absolute binary path:
> > <main-binary>/opt/chapitre6/exampleapp</main-binary>
> >
> > But I've got this error:
> > ValueError: If the source /opt/chapitre6/exampleapp doesn't use a ${prefix} or ${prefix:*} macro, the 
> > destination path must be set
> >
> > So I add:
> > <main-binary dest="${bundle}/Contents/MacOS">/opt/chapitre6/exampleapp</main-binary>
> >
> > Why dest is then required? What is the relation with prefix macro?
>
> Pascal,
>
> The prefix macro represents the part of the source path that's replaced with the destination path. If 
> there's no prefix macro then bundler doesn't know how much of the path to copy over. I suppose that that 
> could be special-cased for the main-binary tag, but it isn't.
>
> Remember that gtk-mac-bundler is designed for bundling applications built with gtk-osx and that those 
> install everything into a designated prefix. There's some probably misguided flexibility built in to allow 
> pulling files from outside of the prefix but especially in the case of binaries it has a good chance of 
> breaking the install_name rewriting and should be used with extreme care.

Hell John,

Just to better understand the underlying mechanism in the bundle script:
a)   <binary>
    ${prefix}/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/${pkg:gdk-pixbuf-2.0:gdk_pixbuf_binary_version}/loaders/*.so
  </binary>
or
  <data>
    ${prefix}/share/themes
  </data>

The bundler put all just after $(prefix) in $(bundle)/Contents/Ressources.
Is it correct?

b)   <main-binary>${prefix}/bin/gtk3-demo</main-binary>

The bundler is here aware of bin folder and put the file after $(prefix)/bin in $(bundle)/Contents/MacOS.
Is it correct?

In this latter case, wouldn't the script put just the file designated by its path in 
$(bundle)/Contents/MacOS, even with an absolute path?

Thanks, Pascal.
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