https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/develop/src/bin/sage-env#L482 and L494
See: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/14296 and https://github.com/sagemath/sage/commit/69213d74ead4e93687cf61f214b0d96dd3f9885a Maybe you can workaround this by setting AS=as and LD=ld in sage-env-config. HTH, Gonzalo On Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 3:48:18 PM UTC-3 Marc Culler wrote: > I discovered, by installing the Sage_macOS app on a pristine macOS system, > that somehow, somewhere, in Sage's startup sequence there is a call to > gcc. This is true whether Sage is being started from a command line or a > notebook. > > On such a macOS system /usr/bin/gcc exists, but calling it causes a dialog > to be posted which asks whether to download and install the Xcode "command > line tools". > > There is no need for a user to install, or be prompted to install, a C > compiler in order to run Sage. If we want to verify whether a C compiler > is installed on the host system then we should check the return value of > xcode-select > -p rather than calling /usr/bin/gcc. > > I am unable to find where this call occurs. Do any of the Sage developers > know which component of Sage could be calling /usr/bin/gcc on start up? > > - Marc > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/4957e41d-2d1b-4714-856c-40e718004388n%40googlegroups.com.