Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
- Subject: Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
- From: Geoff Beier <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:04:09 -0400
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 16:53, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Mar 27, 2012, at 13:48 , Joar Wingfors wrote:
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>> 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.
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> I'd argue that this is a bad move. Why did Apple do this? It's a real PITA to have to install a bunch of GNU tools to let open source projects build.
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Out of curiosity, what projects require you to install
autoconf/automake just to build? Most ship autoconfiscated tarballs
that don't require the tools to be installed just for building. Many
require the tools available to hack on the projects, but they often
require specific versions of the tools that are generally newer than
what Apple was shipping anyway, so the apple-shipped versions didn't
relieve the need to install them and actually made things more
challenging in some cases.
I deal with a fair few autotools-driven projects, and I can't say I'm
even a little sorry to see them go from Xcode installations. Can you
link to a problem project?
Geoff
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