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In Xcode the build of my little AudioUnit project hang at the Rez step. The Rez step ? Yeah, MacOS 9 is alive and well in the CoreAudio/QuickTime parts of Mac OS X. You define little four character constants, that are rezzed into your component, because - I don't know - plists are too cumbersome ?

Anyway for unfathomable reasons Rez didn't want to compile my resource file anymore. It entered a death loop of lseek and read and never returned.

nat$ cd /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU
aden:/Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU nat$ /Developer/Tools/Rez -o /Library/Developer/BuildArea/TestAU.build/Development/TestAU.build/ResourceManagerResources/Objects/TestAU-2BC77829.rsrc -d SystemSevenOrLater=1 -useDF -script Roman -progress -d ppc_YES -d i386_$i386 -I /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers -I /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/AUBase -arch ppc -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/build/Development -i /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/AUBase -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/AUBase -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/Utility -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/Crude\ Effects -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/OtherBases -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/Foo -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/PublicUtility -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/Crude\ Effects/Tests -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/build/Development -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/build/Development/include /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/TestAU.r
/Developer/Tools/Rez V3.6B1
Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 1986-2000

looking for /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/TestAU.r
looking for /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AudioUnit.r
...reading from /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AudioUnit.r
looking for /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AUComponent.r
...reading from /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AUComponent.r
looking for /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/ConditionalMacros.r
looking for /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers/ConditionalMacros.r
...reading from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers/ConditionalMacros.r
^C
And then there it just hangs This has happened before exactly the same way and in a similiar way to others , but there was no good solution for my problem in those mail threads.

The way I "fixed" it , was to run the command with sudo. Yeah that's voodoo, but it worked.

aden:/Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU nat$ sudo /Developer/Tools/Rez -o /Library/Developer/BuildArea/TestAU.build/Development/TestAU.build/ResourceManagerResources/Objects/TestAU-2BC77829.rsrc -d SystemSevenOrLater=1 -useDF -script Roman -progress -d ppc_YES -d i386_$i386 -I /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers -I /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/AUBase -arch ppc -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/build/Development -i /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/AUBase -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/AUBase -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/Utility -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/Crude\ Effects -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/AudioUnits/AUPublic/OtherBases -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/Foo -i /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/PublicUtility -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/Crude\ Effects/Tests -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/build/Development -i /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/build/Development/include /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/TestAU.r
/Developer/Tools/Rez V3.6B1
Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 1986-2000

looking for /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/TestAU.r
looking for /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AudioUnit.r
...reading from /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AudioUnit.r
looking for /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AUComponent.r
...reading from /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AUComponent.r
looking for /Volumes/Source/srcI/TestAU/ConditionalMacros.r
looking for /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers/ConditionalMacros.r
...reading from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers/ConditionalMacros.r
...returning to /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Headers/AUComponent.r
etc.