How to tell if Xcode is doing a "build and archive" in a script?

Question

I have a script that does some preprocessing before the actual build in Xcode. Is there a way to tell when Xcode is doing a "Build and Archive"? I want to do an "svn commit" as part of the archive step. I dumped the environment variables that are there during a build, but they look the same for an archive as a normal build.

Anything else that can be checked to tell if it is building an archive?

Any other way to automatically do a commit before it builds the archive? I don't want to do a commit for every build as this makes the svn tree harder to navigate IMO.

I'm using Xcode 3.2.5.

Thanks! Norm

Answer 1

I wanted to avoid the command line build and archive since I read that it does not build a .ipa file with the provisioning profile embedded in it. Using that makes sending it out to testers much easier.

What I did was the following:

I have 4 configurations. Debug, Release, Ad Hoc Release, and App Store Release.

I use Debug and Release to build without doing a commit. I use the Ad Hoc when I want to send to beta testers, and the App Store for final testing and App Store submittal.

Here is the code that I added to my pre-build script.

# Get the version number from the .plist file
VER_NUM=`cat "${SRCROOT}/${INFOPLIST_FILE}" | grep -A 1 CFBundleVersion | grep string | sed 's/]*>//g' | sed 's/^[  ]*//'`

# Check build type to see if svn commit should be done
if [ "${BUILD_STYLE}" == "App Store Distribution" ] 
then 
SVN_COMMIT=yes
fi

if [ "${BUILD_STYLE}" == "Ad Hoc Distribution" ] 
then 
SVN_COMMIT=yes
fi

if [ "${SVN_COMMIT}" == "yes" ]
then
echo "Commiting the project to SVN"
BUILD_TIME=`date`
svn commit -m "\"Version ${VER_NUM} for ${BUILD_STYLE} ${BUILD_TIME}\""
fi 

This was my quick and dirty answer to the problem. There has to be a more elegant solution, but this will work for now. If Apple would just add an environment variable to show that it is an archive build that would solve it.