Any reason not to update to Xcode 12.2 on Catalina?

[raf]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 06:45:17PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2020, at 17:32, raf wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 11:56:54AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > 
> >> You should definitely never run with a mismatched set of Xcode and its
> >> command line tools. Either update the command line tools to the Xcode
> >> 12.2 version or downgrade Xcode to whatever it was before. Using Xcode
> >> 11.x and matching CLT on macOS 10.15 will keep you from encountering
> >> some build failures.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have "XCode 11.3 (11C29)" (on macos-10.14.6) and,
> > in its Preferences / Locations, it says
> > "Command Line Tools: XCode 11.3 (11C29)".
> > 
> > But pkgutil seems to say otherwise:
> > 
> >  $ pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables | grep version
> >  version: 10.3.0.0.1.1562985497
> > 
> > I haven't noticed any problem (yet), but that looks
> > like a mismatch. Should I upgrade the command line
> > tools anyway? Note that I never actually use the XCode
> > app itself, just the command line tools. I suppose the
> > answer is yes.
> > 
> > Also, is the XCode app mistaken about which version of
> > the command line tools are there, or is it just
> > referring to its embedded version of them?
> 
> This poorly-named Xcode preferences setting is showing you the same
> information as running "xcode-select -p". This tells you what you
> will be running if you run e.g. "clang" on the command line: will you
> get the one that's in Xcode or the one in the standalone command line
> tools package? In your case, it is telling you that you will get the
> one from Xcode 11.3.
> 
> As the pkgutil command shows, your standalone command line tools
> version is 10.3. Because this does not match your Xcode version, you
> should update it.
> 
> MacPorts will use the commands from Xcode if the port indicates that
> it requires that ("use_xcode yes") or if the standalone command line
> tools are not installed, otherwise it will use the commands from the
> command line tools. To avoid problems, make sure the two are the same
> version.

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for that. I have upgraded the command line tools to 11.3
so they match now.

cheers,
raf