Odfrc-cmd generates empty output on osx 10.5

Hi, I'm having a problem with odfrc-cmd : it generates empty output on osx 105 (I tried 10.5.4 on an intel mac and 10.5.2 on a ppc mac). The exact same command, run on the exact same sources produces output as expected on a 10.4 system. (odfrc-cmd does not return an error code or error message.)
I'm completely stuck debugging this, can anybody help? Has anybody successfully run odfrc-cmd on 105, or run into the same problems?
thanks,
Arnt

We are building plugins with odfrc on 10.5 without any problems. There was an issue with the odfrc compiler that was fixed in a rev of the SDK. As I recall the failure would show up in the resource merging step, as resource files would be empty because odfrc failed to generate any content.
Make sure you have the latest SDK installed and see if that helps your problem.

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