macOS 11.1 SDK does not appear to be installed

[Todd Doucet]

It is a little odd that one of the package receipts is not named

    com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_macOS111

but instead is named

  com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_macOS110



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>> MacPorts 2.6.4 was released before Apple released macOS 11.1. We did not yet know how the version numbers of macOS and the macOS SDK would progress under macOS 11. We made a guess based on what had happened in macOS 10.15 and earlier, and we guessed wrong. We have corrected the code already and it will be included in a future version of MacPorts.
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>> macOS 11 users can ignore this warning until that future version of MacPorts is released, with the caveat that it is still important to have both Xcode and the command line tools installed, so users should manually verify that this is the case, not just once but periodically, especially after an OS update, since macOS has had a bug which deletes the CLT receipt, thus preventing the CLT from showing up in software update. Also do make sure that you have a matched set of Xcode and the command line tools -- and I think that perhaps you do not, possibly due to the aforementioned macOS bug. See https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#reinstall-clt
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>> The warning is occurring because you are using a version of macOS (11.1) with a version of Xcode and/or the command line tools that does not contain an SDK of that version. You say you are using Xcode 12.4 but Xcode 12.4 does contain the 11.1 SDK so if the port you are seeing the message with is using Xcode, then you should not see this warning.
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>> Most ports do not use Xcode; they use the command line tools. So it is possible that you are using a version of the command line tools that does not contain the 11.1 SDK. You can check what SDK it contains by listing the contents of the directory /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs. Assuming that MacOSX11.1.sdk is not in that directory, you should probably reinstall the Xcode 12.4 version of the command line tools per the link above (or by downloading from the Apple developer web site) so that you have a matched set, which will probably eliminate the warning.
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> I believe my machine has command-line tools and SDK which match the Xcode version, and has a package receipt for them also.  I could be wrong, but I will show you why I believe that, and the details of my case might be useful to you because there is perhaps a little twist which I will get to.
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> You can see that there are two SDKs here, including the one that you expect, and the name MacOSX.sdk links to it too:
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> % ls -l /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs

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> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   14 Feb  6 16:23 *MacOSX.sdk* -> MacOSX11.1.sdk

> drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  256 Jul  9  2020 *MacOSX10.15.sdk*

> drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel  224 Nov 30 07:33 *MacOSX11.1.sdk*

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> I am not sure which package receipt specifically is important, but I have these:
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> % pkgutil --pkgs | grep -i cltool

> com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables

> com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_macOS110

> com.apple.pkg.CLTools_SDK_macOS1015

> com.apple.pkg.CLTools_macOS_SDK

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> This machine is about one week old.  One of the very first things I did was type 'git' to the shell, which caused macOS to offer to install the Command Line Tools.  I said yes, and was happily using git and the compilers and other tools for several days.
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> Then later, when I decided to install MacPorts, I read that Xcode is required so I installed that.  When I ran Xcode once, Xcode itself offered to install Command Line Tools (or maybe it was during the installation process--not sure).  Anyway, I said yes again and still had command line tools.  And Xcode version 12.4 (12D4e) too.
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> So my guess is that the initial install of CLT, kicked off by trying to run git, was maybe the 10.15 you see.  Then Xcode itself put CLT version 11.1, or so it would seem.
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> My conclusion is that I probably have what I am supposed to have.  If you think otherwise, please let me know.  I assume that MacPorts in the new version will also recognize that I have what I need and the spurious warning would go away.
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> Thanks for your detailed response, and I hope that these details of a typical new use case might be useful to you in figuring out what MacOS looks like in a non-upgrade situation.
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>> If you update to macOS 11.2, the warning will come back, since there is no version of Xcode or the command line tools that contains the 11.2 SDK.
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>> If you wish, you could build MacPorts base from our git repository to receive the fix early.
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