[Development] Important OSX 10.9.5 & 10.10 codesign changes

[Jake Petroules]

On 2014-09-22, at 06:33 AM, Adam Strzelecki <ono at java.pl> wrote:

>> qmake - framework bundle hierarchy (QTBUG-32895): https://codereview.qt-project.org/95454
>> qmake - “_debug" in CFBundleExecutable  (QTBUG-32894): https://codereview.qt-project.org/95455
>> qmake - add CFBundleVersion: https://codereview.qt-project.org/95456
>> macdeployqt - “Current” version symlinks: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/95442/
>> 
>> Are these patches sufficient? If not, what’s missing?
> 
> Almost.
> 
> The only problem not addressed yet is .prl (i.e. QtCore.framework/QtCore.prl) file inside the bundle root. It has to be either moved one level up or into Resources/. Otherwise codesign won't work on built frameworks.
> 
> Of course I am aware that macdepoyqt (probably) strips out this file, but if someone has some kind of custom deployment step then .prl file may cause trouble for him as codesign just bails out with "unsealed contents present in the root directory of an embedded framework" without exactly telling what's going on.

Good catch. Simple answer: is there ANY reason at all to deploy .prl files? If so, place them in Resources. If not, don't put them anywhere in the framework bundles (instead, $QT_INSTALL_LIBS/lib).

> --Adam
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