David,
Yes, Mountain Lion is a rather awkward release for this issue.
It lacks the compiler stub binaries added in Mavericks and
Yosemite which help find the installed command line tools or Xcode.app
tool chain and produce an installer dialog (similar
to the old Rosetta one) if neither are present. Both Xcode.app and the
command line tools are now updated via Software Update
in Mavericks and Yosemite,
The stub binaries for the tool chain was never back ported to
Mountain Lion, so the Xcode 5.x releases had the unfortunate oddity
of requiring the ML users to install from the Xcode.app components
panel of its preferences and unlike on Mavericks there
isn't Software Update support for the Command Line Tools.
Jack
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:57 PM, David Lowe <doctorjl...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 2015 Jan 27, at 7:45 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth.at.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am surprised that these users aren't being offered Xcode 5.1.1
>> in Software Update
>
> <snip>
>
> Believe me, it's not that it wasn't offered, it was an update that
> was ignored due to frustration with the size of the bloatware on offer.
> Furthermore, Xcode 5 is no longer available through the App Store. I did now
> download the 5.1.1 version from the Developer web site [over five hours] and
> am currently waiting on the command line tools.
>
>> The appropriate Command Line Tools should be installed by executing...
>>
>> xcode-select --install
>
> On this version, that gets me:
>
> $ xcode-select --install
> xcode-select: Error: unknown command option '--install'.
>
> This is another frustrating facet of Xcode, in that the powers that
> be have repeatedly changed how this stuff works. On this version, the
> 'correct' way to install the command-line tools is Xcode Preferences ->
> Downloads -> Components. Or just skip Xcode and directly get the tools from
> the web. [Am i right in assuming that the command-line tools should work
> standalone?]
>
> sent from Mountain Lion
>
> Mal: "Just get us on the ground!"
> Wash: "That part will happen pretty definitely!"
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