[MacPorts] #38229: birdfont: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/MacPorts/BirdFont.app.

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#38229: birdfont: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file
/Applications/MacPorts/BirdFont.app.
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 Reporter:  ryandesign@…  |      Owner:  johan.mattsson@…
     Type:  defect        |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal        |  Milestone:
Component:  ports         |    Version:  2.1.3
 Keywords:                |       Port:  birdfont
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 Trying to open the birdfont application fails with:

 {{{
 $ open /Applications/MacPorts/BirdFont.app
 LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file
 /Applications/MacPorts/BirdFont.app.
 }}}

 This is because
 /Applications/MacPorts/BirdFont.app/Contents/MacOS/birdfont.sh does not
 have the execute bit set.

 There is a bug in the install script, which runs:

 {{{
         subprocess.check_call ('cp -r build/BirdFont.app ' + dest +
 '/Applications/', shell=True)
 }}}

 First, the use of the cp "-r" option is "strongly discouraged" according
 to the manpage. Use "-R" instead. Also, use "-p" to preserve permissions.
 (Don't use "-a", which combines -R and -P and -p, because although that's
 what you want, it doesn't exist on Tiger.) But this is not the cause of
 the problem in our case because in the MacPorts portfile we don't use
 that; we use a post-destroot block to copy the app manually. So the wrong
 permissions are already happening on that file during the build phase.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38229>
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