macports thinks xcode is not installed...?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 2, 2015, at 11:51 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:

> On 03.08.2015 06:18 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Aug 2, 2015, at 10:50 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:

>>> OS X 10.11, as you may know, introduces the "rootless" mode, which means that
>>> write access to locations such as /usr and /System (lest /usr/local) are
>>> prohibited - even for the root user.
>> 
>> This is the first I'd heard of it. I like it. Thanks for letting us know.
> 
> That may sound cool for us (and the unsuspecting user, that cannot mess up the
> system easily anymore), but it will inevitably break "legacy behavior", like
> Xcode installing the CLTs in /usr.
> 
> I've seen this exact report (although I guess from a different user) on IRC a
> few days ago, so the latest Xcode Beta version may have broken old behavior?
> 

Admittedly I haven't booted to 10.11 in several days, but Xcode 7 beta 4 was what I was using last.


>> I haven't had any problems building most ports under OS X 10.11 beta with Xcode 7 betas so I suspect something else is going on.
>> 
>> As far as I know, you should still run "xcode-select --install" to install the command line tools. I'm not aware of them being installed automatically.
> 
> While that may be true, it seems that at least Xcode 6 has always been installed
> CLTs in /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools. I have that directory on my system.
> 
> The binaries installed in /usr *seem* to be mere shims that call the "real"
> binaries in /L/D/CLT.
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 37M Apr 20 03:26 /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/clang
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 14K Nov  4  2013 /usr/bin/clang
> 
> 
>> You should also select the Xcode location, using "sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer" (or wherever you put it).
> 
> The problem with that is that the CLTs are not installed there. Even Xcode 6
> installed CLTs to /usr and left /Applications/Xcode.app alone. They (or their
> shims) were still easily picked-up due to being in the default PATH location, so
> nothing bad happened.
> 
> For instance, you won't find clang in
> /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/.

But as you said, that's nothing new. Xcode 6 already worked like that, and MacPorts worked fine with it.


> With OS X 10.11, this situation could change dramatically...