[NETBEANS-2874] app.conf + launcher does not work on OSX

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 11.0
• Fix Version/s: 11.1
• Component/s: apisupport - Harness

Environment

OSX

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steven Yi
• Created: 20/Jul/19 14:59
• Updated: 14/Aug/19 13:15
• Resolved: 14/Aug/19 13:15

Description

Building an NB platform application using Ant with Netbeans 11.0, I found that the generated .app when using build-mac does not run correctly. It appears to me that the cause is that the application's executable script (copied from harness) has this code:

case "`uname`" in
Darwin*)
userdir="${default_mac_userdir}"
;;
*)
userdir="${default_userdir}"
;;
esac

 

while the app.conf that is copied from the harness only has default_userdir defined:

default_userdir="${DEFAULT_USERDIR_ROOT}/dev"

 

The userdir gets set to the $PWD if launched from commandline, but I think set to ""  when the .app is double-clicked. 

I modified my build to append:

 

default_mac_userdir="${DEFAULT_USERDIR_ROOT}/dev"

 

to the copied app.conf and that seems to work, but I am unsure what the intention of the default_mac_userdir is and if that conditional code shouldn't be removed from the default executable shell script for platform apps. 

 

 

Issue Links

• relates to: NETBEANS-2361 app.conf has typo preventing RCP app loading on Linux