Re: problem with copying app bundle
Re: problem with copying app bundle
- Subject: Re: problem with copying app bundle
- From: Gary Oberbrunner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:18:14 -0400
bert wrote:
> OK... I figured out that I should be using CpMac from /Developer/Tools
> to copy app bundles. I found this out while reading about cp at
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/FilesAndFinder.html
>
> coming from Win XP and Linux, I have a really hard time understanding
> how copying an application can break it so badly that it starts to crash
> ... can anyone shed some light on this?
Most likely you have resource forks in there somewhere. Resource forks are
bad news these days, and naturally won't survive any kind of copying to
Windows unless you use pax or dmg or some other archiver.
Do this:
find . -type f -exec ls {}/rsrc \;
and look for a size greater than zero.
Of course if your resources are missing, your app is likely to crash.
-- Gary Oberbrunner
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