[bwahahax]

I used to do this using Cocktail 3.4.9 in Panther, but it seems the prebinding tab has disappeared in Cocktail 3.6.1.

I've heard there is a way to do this using the terminal.

I'd rather a GUI solution, but if the terminal is the only way, how would this be done?

Thanks.

[piracy]

Tiger has done anyway with prebinding in the traditional sense for a variety of reasons. There is no longer any real performance gain from prebinding (and this is why it's gone in Cocktail, for example). If you are hell-bent on doing prebinding for no reason, though, you can use:

sudo update_prebinding -debug -root / -force

[tooki]

Jaguar, Panther and Tiger all prebind automatically any time you launch an unbound application the first time. There's basically no reason for the user to ever have to initiate it.

tooki

[bwahahax]

I guess that's true most of the time. But, for instance, I installed Launchbar and after using it once, I edited an internal .plist so that the program would nolonger show up in the dock. For this to take effect the application needs to be prebound/prebinded again.

I found that by copying the program from the Applications to the Utilities folder the system prebound the application again and it disappeared from the dock.

Is re-prebinding necessary every time you modify the content of an application? In that case I there should be a quick and easy way to do it. If not, then hoorah, I shall retreat to my corner and continue to plot the demise of various TV stars.

[tooki]

Umm, editing a plist would have zero effect on prebinding. Prebinding refers to linking to libraries, nothing less, nothing more. Unless you change the location of a library, or add or remove one, no prebinding needs updating.

tooki

[bwahahax]

Sounds good.
Now that my prebinding days are behind me, I can spend more time plotting...

[alphasubzero949]

http://www.rixstep.com/4/2/cocktail,01.html