Fwd: package installation fails with Homebrew

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Apr 12 08:37:33 PDT 2012


Hello Elmar,

Please reply to the mailing list, not just to me.
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On 04/12/2012 03:57 PM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> Unfortunately now the build error has changed:
>> port install macfuse
> Error: The installed version of Xcode (2.0orlower) is too old to use
> on the installed OS version. Version 4.1 or later is recommended on
> Mac OS X 10.7.
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

This means you do not have any xcodebuild binary and thus, this is not
considered a complete Xcode installation.

> That is I have installed both: Homebrew and Apple`s Xcode, but
>  xcode-select -switch /Applications/Utilities/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/
> does not have any effect on ports.

What is "Homebrew's Xcode"?

> At least it should be possible to select the required compiler.
> I wonder why building gcc47 has worked before without this error.
> As said before I would appreciate a set of base packages like building gcc47
> would be supported without having to run utils like xcode-build.
> gcc47 does compile with this compiler release and it should be possible to
> skip this error message!!

In its current implementation, MacPorts expects a full Xcode installation.

Rainer


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