smoke testing Beta 1

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Sep 3, 2015, at 11:24 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 03 September 2015 21:47:05 Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> Turns out I need to build on an old OS X in order to have things run
>> correctly on older OS X versions (I'm building on 10.7 so people can run on
>> 10.7 or newer), but I then need to sign the resulting dmg on 10.9.5 or
>> newer in order for newer OS X version to recognize the signature. Thanks,
>> Apple, that's a really convenient workflow.
> 
> You should be able to install an older XCode (4.x, probably) on your modern 
> OS X. I installed 5.0 on my office machine to determine whether its compiler was 
> broken (it is).
> 
> The trick will be to teach Qt and cmake to use that toolchain... Maybe if you 
> somehow move/symlink/whatever 
> /Applications/XCode.app/Resources/Developer/XCodeToolchain.Default (or a 
> similar name, see the full path to clang in Makefiles that qmake generates).

Interesting idea. It sounds fragile, but it would have the massive advantage of
allowing me to use a much faster computer to do the Mac builds. Something
to look into in my infinite spare time :-)

But that still doesn't solve my code signing problem (another email in this long
thread)

/D