Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
- Subject: Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
- From: Joar Wingfors <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:48:07 -0700
It depends on what you mean with the "GNU tool chain". That said, it's correct that autoconf/automake was dropped from the Xcode distribution starting with Xcode 4.3.
Joar
On 27 mar 2012, at 03:09, Andreas Grosam wrote:
> It seems, Xcode Command Line Tools does not contain the GNU tool chain anymore. Is this correct?
>
> If yes, it would have been worth a developer note, since with upgrading to Xcode 4.3.x - building with the GNU tool chain is no longer possible. Since this is in no way expected on a UNIX based machine, it took me also a good amount of time to figure this out, especially since many autoconf install scripts are not that descriptive when reporting errors, and it took me a while to find the culprit.
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> So, if anybody is having trouble installing packages from package managers like RVM, gem, Homebrew, MacPorts, etc. whose cause is missing auto* tools, you can install the GNU autotools with for instance Homebrew:
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> $ brew install autoconf
> $ brew install automake
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> (note, MacPorts has autoconf, automake, etc. , too)
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> Regards
> Andreas
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