From 674bd6fc93e74ada45fe0cedb4895565c08cea9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Koc <vincentkoc@ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 04:41:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(mac): isolate build run logs

---
 scripts/build-and-run-mac.sh           |  5 +++--
 test/scripts/build-and-run-mac.test.ts | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/scripts/build-and-run-mac.test.ts

diff --git a/scripts/build-and-run-mac.sh b/scripts/build-and-run-mac.sh
index 3734606a83ea..ecf0ad670957 100755
--- a/scripts/build-and-run-mac.sh
+++ b/scripts/build-and-run-mac.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ cd "$(dirname "$0")/../apps/macos"
 BUILD_PATH=".build-local"
 PRODUCT="OpenClaw"
 BIN="$BUILD_PATH/debug/$PRODUCT"
+LOG_PATH="${OPENCLAW_MAC_RUN_LOG:-$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/openclaw-${PRODUCT}.XXXXXX.log")}"
 
 printf "\n▶️  Building $PRODUCT (debug, build path: $BUILD_PATH)\n"
 swift build -c debug --product "$PRODUCT" --build-path "$BUILD_PATH"
@@ -13,6 +14,6 @@ printf "\n⏹  Stopping existing $PRODUCT...\n"
 killall -q "$PRODUCT" 2>/dev/null || true
 
 printf "\n🚀 Launching $BIN ...\n"
-nohup "$BIN" >/tmp/openclaw.log 2>&1 &
+nohup "$BIN" >"$LOG_PATH" 2>&1 &
 PID=$!
-printf "Started $PRODUCT (PID $PID). Logs: /tmp/openclaw.log\n"
+printf "Started $PRODUCT (PID $PID). Logs: $LOG_PATH\n"
diff --git a/test/scripts/build-and-run-mac.test.ts b/test/scripts/build-and-run-mac.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4ab2a7571e29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/scripts/build-and-run-mac.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+const scriptPath = "scripts/build-and-run-mac.sh";
+
+describe("scripts/build-and-run-mac.sh", () => {
+  it("keeps launch logs isolated unless an explicit log path is provided", () => {
+    const script = readFileSync(scriptPath, "utf8");
+
+    expect(script).toContain(
+      'LOG_PATH="${OPENCLAW_MAC_RUN_LOG:-$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/openclaw-${PRODUCT}.XXXXXX.log")}"',
+    );
+    expect(script).toContain('nohup "$BIN" >"$LOG_PATH" 2>&1 &');
+    expect(script).toContain('printf "Started $PRODUCT (PID $PID). Logs: $LOG_PATH\\n"');
+    expect(script).not.toContain("/tmp/openclaw.log");
+  });
+});