PackageMaker.app location

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Sep 15 09:26:07 PDT 2012


On Sep 15, 2012, at 10:24, Craig Treleaven wrote:

> Hopefully this is a simple question.  I wan't to try making a .dmg of port on Lion using XCode 4.4.1.  I found that PackageMaker.app is no longer installed by default.  (Used to be on XCode 3.X.)  Running 'port -d dmg myport' says:
> 
>> Warning: PackageMaker.app not found; you may need to install it or set packagemaker_path in macports.conf
> 
> A little searching on developer.apple.com turned up "Auxillary Tools for XCode -- Late July 2012" that includes PackageMaker.app.  I downloaded it.
> 
> Where do these tool go?

You can put PackageMaker.app wherever you want, so long as packagemaker_path in macports.conf points to it. The default is:

packagemaker_path /Applications/PackageMaker.app



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