Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
- Subject: Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
- From: Andreas Grosam <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:41:18 +0200
On Mar 28, 2012, at 4:04 AM, Geoff Beier wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 16:53, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 27, 2012, at 13:48 , Joar Wingfors wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Out of curiosity, what projects require you to install
> autoconf/automake just to build?
Whenever you have portable source code?
For instance, RVM fails. It manages a set of Ruby installations.
gem may also fail if it tries to compile native extensions.
Would Macports fail? (probably not since it installs auto tools itself?)
Would brew fail? (yes)
> Most ship auto confiscated tar balls
> 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.
Doesn't the auto tools check for a sane environment itself?
So, if auto tools were outdated, I would expect to get an error when building.
>
> 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?
It's not a real problem:
$ sudo port install autoxxx
$ brew install autoxxx
Regards
Andreas
>
>
> Geoff
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