On 3/4/13 3:31 PM, Jess H. Brewer wrote:
> On 2013-03-04 12:13 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> On 3/4/13 12:15 PM, Jess H. Brewer wrote:
>>> The other day I was running # fink update-all    and I ran into the
>>> following problem as it tried to update some large number of modules: it
>>> couldn't find
>>> /Applications/Utilities/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk
>>>
>>>
>>> I looked in that directory and found MacOSX10.7.sdk and MacOSX10.6.sdk,
>>> but no MaxOSX10.8.sdk -- so I did # locate MacOSX10.8.sdk   and found it
>>> in  ln -s
>>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk
>>> -- i.e. differing only in the absence of the /Utilities/ subdirectory.
>>>
>>> So I did the obvious:
>>>
>>> # ln -s
>>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk
>>> /Applications/Utilities/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk
>>>
>>> after which everything worked fine.
>>>
>>> No doubt this is the wrong approach, but I was reluctant to just # mv
>>> instead of # ln -s, in case some other stuff expected to find
>>> MacOSX10.8.sdk where it is.
>>>
>>> Just in case others are having similar problems, I decided to mention
>>> this here.  (I first searched the archives for "MacOSX10.8.sdk" and
>>> found nothing.)
>>>
>>> Hope this helps. Sorry if it is an annoyance!
>>>
>>> -- Jess
>>>
>>
>> You shouldn't need to do that.  What probably is going on is that your
>> _system_ lost track of where you _actually_ put Xcode.  Fink doesn't
>> care where Xcode.app is, because it gets that information from the system.
>>
>> You can check this via:
>>
>> xcode-select -print-path
>>
>> If that gives "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer", then the
>> issue is what I said above, and you can fix it via
>>
>> sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Utilities/Xcode.app
>>
> 
> Actually it's the other way around: the latest Xcode.app went into 
> /Applications/Xcode.app  but somehow the message didn't get to the 
> system, which still thinks it should be in 
> /Applications/Utilities/Xcode.app
> 

Oops, yeah, I read through that a bit too quickly.


> I suppose I could just do
> 
> # sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app
> 
> and delete the /Applications/Utilities/Xcode.app directory, but I worry 
> that I might have something that depends on old versions of 
> MacOSX10.*.sdk (* = 6 or 7).  Is this possible, or am I wasting disk 
> space keeping them around?  Sorry for the ignorant questions.
> 
> 
> 

You wouldn't have a runtime problem, at least.

As for building stuff, indeed the 10.6 SDK isn't present for new Xcodes
(4.5 and later on both 10.7 and 10.8).  If you're on Mountain Lion, _no_
supported Xcode has a 10.6 SDK.
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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