[brailleblaster] Re: Howto Compile BrailleBlaster for Mac OS X on the Command Line

  • From: Chris von See <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:44:06 -0700

Extracting the BrailleBlaster zip file using Springy gives "permission denied" errors on each item in the archive. However, downloading the archive from "www.brailleblaster.org" and using the "sudo unzip brailleblaster-1.0.0.zip" command I was able to extract the archive, and upon doing so I noticed that the "brailleblaster" directory and all of its subdirectories and files have no permissions (that is, there are no user/group/world permission bits set). Using "sudo chmod -R" with appropriate permissions fixed the problem.


I'm running Mac OS X Leopard.


Cheers
Chris

On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:33 AM, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote:

There is indeed a problem with the brailleblaster release on the Mac. When I unzipped it in terminal using the zip command, it unzipped but crashed terminal. I could then only remove the resulting brailleblaster directory by using the sudo command. When I tried going into finder and using Unarchiver, I heard "Unarchiver" but never found an open unarchiver window and the brailleblaster zip file seems to now have disappeared from the directory I had it in and no brailleblaster directory was completed. I am using an Intel Mac mini running Snow Leopard and am not generally having problems unpacking zip files either with unzip or Unarchiver. Not only do I have the basic Unix system that comes with the Mac, but I also have Macports and fink installed. To have a compiling problem is one thing but there really shouldn't be a problem with just unzipping a zip file.






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Cheryl

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