Re: Is this a bad idea or is this supported?
Re: Is this a bad idea or is this supported?
- Subject: Re: Is this a bad idea or is this supported?
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:18:50 -0400
On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
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> On 2 nov 2012, at 15:59, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> But it is good to know that the installs are rather compartmentalized and allow this. Thanks.
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> This is true for Xcode, and Xcode's native build system. Keep in mind though that this is not generally true for UNIX build systems. If you depend on a non-native build system it's likely that it will expect to find UNIX development tools installed into "/". This is why we provide the separate Command Line Tools package. For reasons that should be obvious there can be only one such package installed at one time.
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> Finally, if you depend on a non-native build system but are in a position to modify it, you can avoid the dependency on having tools installed in "/" by indirecting via xcrun. Read the man pages for xcrun and xcode-select for more info.
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> Joar
And that was my exact concern. What externals, if any (command line tools, perhaps), might be installed in a location that would be shared by all installations.
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