site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com The workaround seems to be to set PWD before invoking PackageMaker: PWD=`pwd` \ PackageMaker -build -p build/CPBase.pkg -f ./root -b /tmp -ds \ -r resources -i Info.plist -d Description.plist — F On 28 Jun 2007, at 1:11 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: Short question (which may lead to more): What does it mean when the PackageMaker tool emits the error message: The package could not be created because of the following errors: No package identifier specified. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... Suggestions, on-list and off-, that I may not have set the package identifier, were inapposite to my problem (which I'd oversimplified in the hope of getting replies on this go-round). More examination shows my problem to be a strange interaction between the PackageMaker tool and recursive calls to a GNU makefile. When doing a recursive make (make -C subdir all), GNUmake changes the working directory to subdir, but leaves the bash environment variable PWD unchanged. (Googling leads me to believe that POSIX is okay with this behavior.) Every shell command I've seen performs correctly when this happens. Except PackageMaker. It appears that PackageMaker does not rely on file-name parameters being relative to the current working directory. Instead, it makes these file names relative to PWD. So in a recursive make, "PackageMaker ... -i Info.plist" tries to pull Info.plist from PWD, the _parent_ directory. This can't be an uncommon situation — surely others are building mpkgs by having makefiles build the constituent pkgs first and the mpkg from them? Is this, as I believe, a bug in PackageMaker? I want to do a reality check before slogging through a Radar report. I sent this question about a week ago, but perhaps the abundant detail I included scared people off. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com