Log file of the easy-installer does not get written on MacOS

Summary

On MacOS the easy-installer does not write a log file.

The problem

Steps to reproduce

Run the easy-installer on MacOS.

What is the current behavior?

There were a handful of topics on the /e/ forum of people who had trouble with the easy-installer on a mac and it turned out they couldn't provide the log file.

It's not documented where the log file is supposed to get written. The source code of the easy-installer looks like it should be either in /tmp/easy-installer or in the $JAVA_HOME/bin folder (which should be the bundled java) but nobody has found it there so far.

What is the expected correct behavior?

The log should be correctly written and its location should be well documented for MacOS.

Solutions

Workaround

There is no workaround as it's not possible to copy/paste the log text from the installer window (see issue #2096 (closed)) or directly upload it to the /e/ cloud or gitlab (see #2097 (closed)).

Possible fixes

I don't have a Mac myself, so I can't really say.