package installation fails with Homebrew

[Art McGee]

Clearing up the confusion:

This person is referring to the Homebrew package manager.

He mistakenly thinks that because Homebrew works with only the
commandline tools installed, that MacPorts should as well.

As you stated, a full Xcode install is necessary.

Each package manager on OS X (MacPorts, Fink, Pkgsrc, Homebrew,
Prefix, Rubygems) has a different set of rules and requirements. You
must pay attention to the details for each.


Art


> 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