xcode not found while building

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On May 26, 2024, at 14:33, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > MacVim is difficult to build, I want to get a version build on older versions of MacOS.
> > I am trying to get a version building on 10.11. The current versions and most previous versions don't build, because XCode 8 is expected. I have XCode 7.3.1
> > 
> > Going back in history I got to 8.1 155
> > 
> > this has build failing.
> > 
> > Hunk #1 succeeded at 796 (offset 27 lines).
> > --->  Running ibtool for Preferences.nib
> > xcode-select: error: tool 'ibtool' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
> > Command failed: ibtool --compile src/MacVim/English.lproj/Preferences.nib/keyedobjects.nib src/MacVim/English.lproj/Preferences.nib
> > Exit code: 1
> > Error: Failed to patch MacVim: command execution failed
> > 
> > 
> > But, as said, I have XCode installed! what cold be wrong?
>
> If you have the command line tools installed, then MacPorts uses them unless the portfile says "use_xcode yes".

So make sure you checked oute4b3d80 and not an earlier commit where the version was 8.1 155. If use_xcode is already in the Portfile you're using, you probably need to run xcode-select.

- Josh