tiff: The domain/default pair of (/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Info, CFBundleShortVersionString) does not exist

[dmz@…]

When attempting to build libtiff, I get:

Error: Target org.macports.extract returned: 2009-07-21 00:20:20.337 defaults[6278:807] 
The domain/default pair of (/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Info, CFBundleShortVersionString) does not exist
Warning: the following items did not execute (for tiff): org.macports.activate org.macports.extract org.macports.patch org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I am running a freshly installed Xcode 3.1.3, with the Developer Tools apps on another partition (/Volumes/Anlashok/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app is the path to Xcode.app), and I have verified that xcode-select returns the correct path (/Volumes/Anlashok/Developer).

[blb@…]

The problem is that some ports (like tiff here) want to check to make sure you have a recent enough Xcode install by checking the version in its plist file. It obviously fails when Xcode is not installed in /Developer.

Perhaps if these ports instead made use of xcode-select:

set current_xcodeversion [exec defaults read [exec xcode-select -print-path]/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Info CFBundleShortVersionString]

Though that then brings up the question of which Xcode versions have xcode-select available?

[tobypeterson]

We really shouldn't put these kinds of checks in, users should know to have the most recent version of Xcode.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Trunk has a developer_dir setting, but 1.7 is simply not going to be fully functional with Xcode installed somewhere other than /Developer. I agree that individual ports shouldn't be doing checks like this; if anything, base should complain about known-bad Xcode versions.

[tobypeterson]

Removed the check in r54124, filed #20389

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I reverted r54124 in r54132 and opened a ​discussion about this on macports-dev.

Tiger does not have xcode-select, but on Tiger Xcode cannot be installed into a different location. We really need to implement a proper Xcode version check in base and thereby fix #12794. At the very least, base needs to record the current Xcode version in a variable; we could still leave it to ports to check that variable.

[tobypeterson]

The check is inside a os.major == 9 block, so I just changed it to run xcode-select.

closing