I'm probably missing something simple here. I am trying to auto increment my build number in XCode 4.4 only when archiving my application (in preparation for a TestFlight deployment). I have a working shell script that runs on the target and successfully updates the info.plist file for each build. My build configuration for archiving is name 'Ad-Hoc'.

Here is the script:

if [ $CONFIGURATION == Ad-Hoc ]; then
    echo "Ad-Hoc build. Bumping build#..."
    plist=${PROJECT_DIR}/${INFOPLIST_FILE}
    buildnum=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleVersion" "${plist}")

    if [[ "${buildnum}" == "" ]]; then
        echo "No build number in $plist"
        exit 2
    fi

    buildnum=$(expr $buildnum + 1)
    /usr/libexec/Plistbuddy -c "Set CFBundleVersion $buildnum" "${plist}"
    echo "Bumped build number to $buildnum"
else
    echo $CONFIGURATION " build - Not bumping build number."
fi

This script updates the plist file appropriately and is reflected in XCode each time I archive. The problem is that the .ipa file that comes out of the archive process is still showing the previous build number. I have tried the following solutions with no success:

• Clean before build
• Clean build folder before build
• Move Run Script phase to directly after the Target Dependencies step in Build Phases
• Adding the script as a Run Script action in my scheme as a pre-action

No matter what I do, when I look at the build log, I see that the info.plist file is being processed as one of the very first steps. It is always prior to my script running and updating the build number, which is, I assume, why the build number is never current in the .ipa file.

Is there a way to force the Run Script phase to run before the info.plist file is processed?