Very strange in that case. I have delete EIFGENs many times. I launch
ES through X11 both 'estudio' and 'sudo estudio'. Do you mean I
> Well honestly the problems you are describing don't seem to be mac
> related. I've seen ES behave really strangely when there was a
> permissions issue with the EIFGENs folder. Have you tried to delete
> it?
> I just created a non-admin account on my machine to see if I could
> reproduce your problems, but no - everything worked as expected. How
> do
> you launch EiffelStudio on your macs? Do you use the icon? I pretty
> sure
> you're doing something that most people don't do, since I know for a
> fact that the MacPorts EiffelStudio works for many people. Just don't
> use precompiles.
>
> Jann
>
> Ian Joyner wrote:
> > I think it's a permissions problem. I can get the basic project to
> > build in my administrator usercode (the first one set up when OS X
> is
> > installed). However, I hardly ever, ever use this usercode, and
> always
> > set up machines of friends to use non-admin usercodes by default.
> >
> > When I tried the basic non-graphics project on my non-admin
> usercode,
> > the first thing I noted was the project and all subdirectories/files
> > were given an owner of 'system'. This meant that I was given a
> > "project is read-only" error. So I did a chown -R. However, I still
> > had linking problems. So I tried setting my usercode to have
> > administrator privileges. Even that is no good. It seems Eiffel will
> > only run under root, which is really not much use.
> >
> > I also tried 'sudo finish_freezing', but the errors I get are:
> >
> > ian:W_code ian 22:04 502> sudo finish_freezing
> > Password:
> > Eiffel C/C++ Compilation Tool - Version 6.0
> > Copyright Eiffel Software 1985-2007. All Rights Reserved
> >
> > Preparing C compilation
> > C15/Cobj15.o:1: error: stray �\254� in program
> > C15/Cobj15.o:1: error: stray �\237� in program
> > C15/Cobj15.o:1: error: stray �\250� in program
> > C15/Cobj15.o:1: error: stray �\206� in program
> > C15/Cobj15.o:1:5: warning: null character(s) ignored
> >
> > and on and on it goes. These errors do not appear when building
> under
> > the original admin usercode.
> >
> > What I suggest is to rebuild the release of EiffelOnMac 6.2 using a
> > non-admin usercode. (Is Jann responsible for this?) Once all these
> > permissions problems are fixed, it might start to become usable. You
> > might have to do a few sudo commands at the command line to build
> the
> > precompiles of libraries, but this should not be too onerous to any
> > good developer.
> >
> > Meanwhile, I can restrict my small experimentations with this
> version
> > of Eiffel to my admin usercode (since I have a little spare time
> > between assignments at the moment), and hope that some of these
> > problems are ironed out in the meantime.
> >
> > I hope that's an accurate analysis anyway.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ian
> >
> > On 01/07/2008, at 2:06 PM, Peter Gummer wrote:
> >
> >> Ian Joyner wrote:
> >>> I tossed the base and vision precomps and started ES, but it seems
> >> to
> >>> want to do the precompiles. I have clicked no in the "Do you
> want to
> >>> do the precompiles now" dialog box. But then I get the VD42 error
> >> when
> >>> I try to compile the project saying the precompiles can't be
> found.
> >>> How do I create a project and compile without precompiles?
> >>>
> >>> I think these steps are essential on the web page, not just a note
> >>> buried in the FAQ after a long "Getting around Firewalls" section.
> >> Hi Ian,
> >>
> >> Just get rid of the precompiles from your project. This is standard
> >> EiffelStudio functionality -- there's nothing Mac-specific about it
> >> -- so I
> >> wouldn't have thought it necessary to mention it on the EiffelOnMac
> >> page,
> >> but you've shown otherwise so please go ahead and mention it.
> It's a
> >> wiki
> >> :-)
> >>
> >> You can remove the precompile in the usually way, in the Project
> >> Settings
> >> window.
> >>
> >> - Peter Gummer
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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