Re: No UNIX Development Tools on Snow Leopard
Re: No UNIX Development Tools on Snow Leopard
- Subject: Re: No UNIX Development Tools on Snow Leopard
- From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:26:23 -0700
On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: I didn't check the latest Xcode 3.1.3 on Snow Leopard.
I think it does not violate any NDA to observe that it would be astonishing if the Leopard (3.0/3.1) releases of Xcode worked at all in a later release of the operating system.
Actually, it would not to me. Xcode 2.5 runs just find on 10.5, so why should 3.1 fail on Leopard.
However, that is beyond the point
It would however explain why "UNIX Development tools" would be grayed out. You can't install the command line components of Xcode 2.5 system-wide on 10.5 either. You can only do that with the OS' "native" development tools (i.e., Xcode 3.0-3.1.x in case of 10.5, and presumably Xcode 3.2.x-... on 10.6).
In general, Jonas is spot on. While versions of Xcode may or may not be portable to future versions of Mac OS X (2.5 is portable to 10.5, but 1.5 was not portable to 10.4, for example), the Unix tools are tied tightly to the specific OS release. If you upgrade to a new version of Mac OS X and wish to do development with the tools in /usr/bin, you must install the new Unix Developer Tools from the Xcode Tools disk image or DVD, whether or not you install or use Xcode itself.
Chris |
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