On May 26, 2024, at 14:33, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> MacVim is difficult to build, I want to get a version build on older versions
> of MacOS.
> I am trying to get a version building on 10.11. The current versions and most
> previous versions don't build, because XCode 8 is expected. I have XCode 7.3.1
>
> Going back in history I got to 8.1 155
>
> this has build failing.
>
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 796 (offset 27 lines).
> ---> Running ibtool for Preferences.nib
> xcode-select: error: tool 'ibtool' requires Xcode, but active developer
> directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools
> instance
> Command failed: ibtool --compile
> src/MacVim/English.lproj/Preferences.nib/keyedobjects.nib
> src/MacVim/English.lproj/Preferences.nib
> Exit code: 1
> Error: Failed to patch MacVim: command execution failed
>
>
> But, as said, I have XCode installed! what cold be wrong?
If you have the command line tools installed, then MacPorts uses them unless
the portfile says "use_xcode yes".