[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen on Mavericks

Ben Shum bshum at biblio.org
Thu Oct 24 12:22:01 EDT 2013


Just an advisory to any Evergreen groups running the staff client on
their Macbooks.  With the latest Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks upgrade, we
noticed that our Evergreen staff clients crashed immediately upon
startup.

Looking closer, we discovered that the cause for us was a missing
key/string in the info.plist file:

        <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
        <string>org.evergreen-ils.Evergreen</string>

The lack of CFBundleIdentifier as NULL was causing our crashes.
Adding this key and string to our mac clients resolved the issue.
Apparently it should have always been there but wasn't included in the
original wiki page description of building a Mac client from scratch.
I've since updated the wiki page describing in broad strokes how Mac
clients are built for more recent Evergreen versions.  It's still
missing a lot of specifics, but is slightly more accurate now.

Hope this helps.

-- Ben Shum


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