codesigning error on OS X 10.9.5

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi,

until yesterday codesigning worked for my LC 6.5.2 app on OS X 10.9.1.
Yesterday I made the update to 10.9.5 and Xcode 6.0.1. Now codesign throws
the error: "unsealed contents present in the bundle root in subcomponent:
MacOS/Externals/revxml.bundle" (same for other rev bundles). I tested all
combinations with/without --force and --deep and also as recommended signing
from inside to outside the rev.bundle first. No success.

 

Because the signing and verification process got again stricter with 10.9.5
I read the tech note
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html and
deleted the manifest file in the root of the revxml.bundle. Without the
manifest file the signing process works without errors and the verification
tells me, my app is accepted.

 

But my Mac skills are very limited, so I even don't know the function of a
manifest file. May I just delete it, if codesign doesn't like it? Gets
something else broken, what I don't see yet, when deleting the manifest?
What is a manifest at all, my app doesn't have a manifest either?

 

Thanks for any "private lessons"

Tiemo