[Development] 5.4.1 OSX macdeployqt FAIL

Sorvig Morten Morten.Sorvig at theqtcompany.com
Mon May 11 12:11:22 CEST 2015


> On 11 May 2015, at 08:45, Ziller Eike <Eike.Ziller at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On May 10, 2015, at 9:08 PM, mark diener <rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, it looks like the big weakness in OSX deployment is macdeployqt and we are on version 5.4.1+ 
>> 
>> I was able to change my macdeployqt command line FROM:
>> 
>> macdeployqt ./testdep.app/ -qmldir=/macdev/qdev/testdep/ -verbose=2 <enter>
>> 
>> TO:
>> 
>> macdeployqt testdep.app/ -qmldir=/macdev/qdev/testdep/ -verbose=2 <enter>
>> 
>> And it WORKED!
>> 
>> The only difference between the two is the period and forward slash in front of the testdep.app reference.
>> 
>> I think it should be registered with the maintainer of macdeployqt that the tool is subject to falling down on its knees
>> with just the slightest syntax variation. YIKES!

I nominate you for “most drama in bug report” in this year’s awards.

Anyway, let’s fix it! It’s a one-line patch:

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/112054/

Morten :)


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