app broken after install
app broken after install
- Subject: app broken after install
- From: "Philip D. Wasson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:46:21 -0400
I'm working on an application that installs other apps using the
Apple command line installer. During a recent test, a strange thing
occurred and I'm wondering if it's something I'm doing wrong or if
it's a bug, etc.
The application being installed was a PowerPC-only, Carbon, Mach-O,
bundled app built in CodeWarrior. The installer package was very
simple, just installing that one app into /Applications. After
installation (on an iMac Core Duo), the app was displayed with the
circle-slash overlay, like an older-style app on an Intel Mac or an
Intel-only app on a PowerPC Mac. The Finder refused to launch it, but
it launched OK from the command-line. Option-dragging it to another
folder resulted in a working copy with no circle-slash overlay.
Since it was a normal app, and the installer package was built using
PackageMaker and it was installed using Apple's installer, I can't
think of anything I could be doing wrong, except perhaps something
about the permissions might be off. Maybe the Finder looked at the
app too soon, didn't think it looked like a runnable app, and set a
flag somewhere? (The symptom persisted across logout/login and reboot.)
Any ideas?
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Philip D. Wasson pwasson at maned dot com
Software Engineer Managing Editor Inc.
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