strange SDKs in El Capitan...

[Kenneth F. Cunningham]

Thanks -- I do this quite a lot (too much, probably), but somehow I obviously have missed some Xcode update here.

Nothing shows up in the upgrade list / App Store, but clearly there is one ...

Best,

Ken




On 2020-04-01, at 4:57 PM, Franco Vaccari wrote:

> If it may help, on my PowerMac running El Cap I find both showing 10.12:
> 
> [:~]% ls -la /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  136 Dec 16  2017 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  170 Dec 15  2016 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  170 Sep 17  2017 MacOSX.sdk
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Dec 16  2017 MacOSX10.12.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk
> [:~]% ls -la /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDK*
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  136 Dec 16  2017 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  admin  170 Dec 16  2017 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  170 Sep 17  2017 MacOSX.sdk
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Dec 16  2017 MacOSX10.12.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk
> [dstx03:~] vaccari% exit
> 
> Xcode there is v.8.2.1
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Franco
> 
>> On 2 Apr 2020, at 01:43, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In trying to track down a build failure of clang-3.7 on El Cap, I found it only builds there if “use_xode yes” is selected...
>> 
>> In trying to understand why that is, I find this odd SDK difference. It’s on two different El Cap machines I have. Does everyone with El Cap have this issue - the last Xcode has MacOSX10.11 SDK but the CLTs have MacOSX10.12 SDK? 
>> 
>> If so, no wonder we see strange errors:
>> 
>> 
>> $ ls -la /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs
>> total 0
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  102  3 Mar  2016 .
>> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  170 26 Apr  2016 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  170 20 Oct  2020 MacOSX10.11.sdk
>> 
>> 
>> $ ls -la /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDK*
>> total 8
>> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  136  1 Jul  2017 .
>> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  admin  170  1 Jul  2017 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  170 17 Sep  2017 MacOSX.sdk
>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10  1 Jul  2017 MacOSX10.12.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk
>> 
>> 
>> 
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