Bug 393946

Summary: Problem looking up libexec binaries in .DMG bundled apps on Mac
Product: [Developer tools] Craft Reporter: Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier>
Component: CoreAssignee: Hannah von Reth <vonreth>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: kde-windows
Priority: NOR    
Version: master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: macOS (DMG)   
OS: macOS   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2018-05-07 10:20:39 UTC
A tester has run into the following bug when opening the "file browser" tool window of RKWard, installed from a Mac .DMG, created on the binary factory. While, here, it is about kioslave, I suppose that similar bugs will be lurking at various other place related to "libexec" binaries:

  Unable to create io-slave. Can not find 'kioslave' executable at
  '/Users/rkward/Music/rkward.app/Contents/MacOS, /Users/rkward/Music/
  rkward.app/Contents/libexec, /Users/packaging/Craft/BinaryFactory/
  macos-64-clang/lib/libexec/kf5'

Now, this corresponds to the follow source code in kio:

  https://cgit.kde.org/kio.git/tree/src/core/slave.cpp#n506

I.e. these paths correspond to QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath(), QLibraryInfo::location(QLibraryInfo::LibraryExecutablesPath), and then the compile-time path, respectively.

For Mac, neither the first nor third would be suitable options (but notably, the third path is probably hiding the bug from developers!). QLibraryInfo::LibraryExecutablesPath should be usable, but not trivially so:

1. The "libexec"-folder is at XYZ.app/Contents/Frameworks/libexec, and that does seem more reasonable than XYZ.app/Contents/libexec . If we want to use that, one way will be to append to qt.conf (already created by macdeployqt):
  "LibraryExecutables = Frameworks/libexec"

2. However, the follow-up problem is that most binaries are in subfolders "kf5"/ "kauth". This is not where the above code is looking, however. It looks directly in libexec . So the installation directory should probably omit the "kf5" as on Windows (https://cgit.kde.org/extra-cmake-modules.git/tree/kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake#n441).
Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2022-11-21 08:22:09 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2022-12-21 05:20:16 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
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