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Running Factor from symlink on Mac doesn't work for UI tools #1745

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mrjbq7 opened this issue Nov 10, 2016 · 1 comment
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Running Factor from symlink on Mac doesn't work for UI tools #1745

mrjbq7 opened this issue Nov 10, 2016 · 1 comment
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mrjbq7 commented Nov 10, 2016

This should work:

$ ./factor -run=ui.tools
The UI requires you to run Factor from an application bundle.

Since ./factor is a symlink to ./Factor.app/Contents/MacOS/factor...

But, this works:

$ ./Factor.app/Contents/MacOS/factor -run=ui.tools

So, I think we should make the first one work too.
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mrjbq7 commented Jan 21, 2017

A related (but unanswered) question on StackOverflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36930120/symbolic-link-to-binary-executable-in-mac-app-bundle

@bjourne bjourne added the macOS label Jan 30, 2017
@erg erg added this to the 0.98 milestone Mar 15, 2018
@erg erg added the bug label Jul 8, 2018
@erg erg modified the milestones: 0.98, 0.99 Aug 12, 2018
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