[Development] Important OSX 10.9.5 & 10.10 codesign changes

[Jake Petroules]

On 2014-09-22, at 05:56 AM, Sorvig Morten <Morten.Sorvig at digia.com> wrote:

>> 
>> And the Info.plist should *always* set CFBundleExecutable to QtCore. To use the debug version you set the DYLD_IMAGE_SUFFIX environment variable to _debug prior to execution.
> 
> A minor case: What would you do for debug-only builds?

You don't do that. :) But I'd give the same answer - set DYLD_IMAGE_SUFFIX. You can add it to LSEnvironment in your application's Info.plist for Finder launches as well.

>> 
>> As far as I'm aware, we already do this correctly (aside from Info.plist being in the wrong place), and the only reason _debug is showing up in an Info.plist somewhere is probably due to some simple typo or omission.
> 
> Looks like it comes from the @EXECUTABLE@ -> var(“QMAKE_ORIG_TARGET”) substitution in unixmake2.cpp. 
> 
> I think the release build is racing the debug build, causing “_debug" to appear in some frameworks. So for a release+debug build we have two options:
> 1) Use the release Info.plist. (the current suggested approach)
> 2) Make sure they are identical.

What you've done on Gerrit (approach 1, essentially) is correct.

> Morten
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