Re: installing Dev tools on external drive(s)
Re: installing Dev tools on external drive(s)
- Subject: Re: installing Dev tools on external drive(s)
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:37:40 -0700
On Oct 31, 2007, at 9:33 PM, Rick Ballard wrote:
On Oct 31, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
My MBPro has less than 9 GB of free space. (100 G 7200 Rpm internal)
I have 5 drives hanging off of it - all Mac OS X Extended and some
journaled.
XCode 3.0 tools installer won't let me install on any of the
external drives.
Is there something I need to do to bless the drives for the dev
tools?
There's no need to "bless" other volumes for the install, but
unfortunately the installer UI for relocatable installs is not very
straightforward at the moment. Here's how you do it:
1) Ignore the "Change Install Location..." button, and/or if you're
presented with the "Destination Select" pane, choose the boot volume
(the only allowed option).
2) In the "Installation Type" pane, click the "Customize" button.
3) In the custom install pane, in the "Location" column, you'll see
a folder icon with the default install location "(Developer)" on a
popup next to one of the install choices. Click on that popup and
choose "Other...".
4) In the file navigator that comes up, navigate to the location you
want to install to. This can be on any volume.
IMPORTANT: Click "New Folder" and create a folder of the name you
want to use for your developer folder. This can be "Developer", as
in the default, "Xcode3.0", or whatever else you choose. If you're
not installing to the default location, you need to create this
folder or the install will fail.
5) Select your new folder and click "Choose".
6) Proceed with the install.
The same instructions apply to Xcode 2.5. Xcode 2.5 and Xcode 3.0
are the first releases that allow you to choose where to install
your developer tools.
There's an easier way to do all this as well, though: install to the
default location, then go to the Finder and drag and drop your
developer folder to the location you'd like to keep it. Again, this
isn't supported on versions of Xcode prior to 2.5 or 3.0 (and isn't
supported with 2.5 on Tiger).
After moving your developer folder, if you care about being able to
run /usr/bin/xcodebuild, /usr/bin/ibtool, or any of the other tools
listed in the xcode-select manpage, you'll probably want to run the
'xcode-select -switch <path you dragged your developer folder to>'
command after doing this. See the xcode-select manpage for more
info. This isn't necessary when choosing a custom location in the
installer.
Thanks for the explanation!
(would be great to get a QA or TN about this until such time as the
installer itself is improved)
-Shawn
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