Why can't I clean?

Scripting Forums AppleScript Studio & Xcode
#1

I’m new to AS Studio (XCode actually) but it’s not the scripting part that’s throwing me or even creating and interacting with NIBs. It’s the repeated build and clean part. After I build and run a project once and then change something and try to build it again, my builds fail with errors like this:

pbxcp: /tmp/TimeLog_B.dst//Applications/Utilities/Time Log Application/Time Log.app/Contents/Info.plist: Permission denied
pbxcp: error: open(): /tmp/TimeLog_B.dst//Applications/Utilities/Time Log Application/Time Log.app/Contents/Info.plist: Permission denied

If I try to clean, my clean fails with the message:

rm: /tmp/TimeLog_B.dst//Applications/Utilities/Time Log Application/Time Log.app/Contents/Resources: Permission denied
rm: /tmp/TimeLog_B.dst//Applications/Utilities/Time Log Application/Time Log.app/Contents: Permission denied
rm: /tmp/TimeLog_B.dst//Applications/Utilities/Time Log Application/Time Log.app: Directory not empty …failed Clean.Remove clean …

If I go into Terminal and make my way to the tmp directory where the temporary build files are, I can sudo rm the .app there (in this case “Time Log.app”) and then I’m free to clean and rebuild.

It sounds like a permissions problem but I don’t know how to configure things so that XCode has the proper permissions to clean.

Any ideas?

#2

Try moving your project (or at least the build location) out of the Utilities folder (it is not a “normal” folder), for example your desktop or any folder withing your home hierarchy.

#3

Can I control that. I know I can choose where I save the project and that’s where the builds are saved as well. But it also looks like a copy is saved to the following root directory:

/tmp/TimeLog_B.dst//Applications/Utilities/Time Log Application/Time Log.app

This is the one that clean cean’t seem to get rid of and that I have to remove with Terminal. Is this some sort of temporary file or is the build file saved in the project folder just an alias?

#4

Unless you add a new “custom executable”, the app is built in a folder next to your .pbproj/.xcode project (I think)