osxfuse @3.8.3_0: No version of Xcode found

[Darieb]

MacOS X 10.7.5
MacPorts 2.8.1
Xcode 4.3

Help: I tried to install ext4fuse, which went fine until the penultimate step, which is osxfuse. No other required ports had a problem. It looks as if the xcode.sh program to find the Xcode version broke somehow. ("xcode-select -print-path" is part of OS X and returns the path to Xcode; I know the .sh file does more than that, but there may be an easier way!)

I looked briefly at xcode.sh, and could not see an obvious way to fix it. I really would like ext4fuse to work (the newest versions won't run on the old 10.7.5, and the computer I'm using can't go to 10.8. *sigh*)

please and thank you for a fix or a workaround.

Yes, I did try to look through other tickets for a similar problem and found none; that may be newbie error.

[Darieb]

Log of "port install osxfuse"

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I found #57142 in which a person encountering this problem solved it by turning Spotlight on. Do you have Spotlight off? If so, try turning it on.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

That ticket's log has an additional error that yours doesn't have:

mdfind[3673:18794] Metadata.framework [Error]: couldn't get the client port

So maybe the problem isn't that Spotlight is off, but that you have excluded the /Applications directory from Spotlight indexing, or that your Xcode.app is not in the /Applications folder.

[Darieb]

Thank you for checking and amending my ticket so promptly.

I can find no such error nor any reference to mdfind in the "main.log" that I think I sent. Perhaps you mixed up logs?

Yes, I'd seen the Spotlight comment. Spotlight is on and searching /Applications; I've been using it. Xcode.app is in the /Applications folder. I apologize for not mentioning that.

xcode-select -print-path returns:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

[Darieb]

BTW, Xcode has built-in answers to some of the questions that xcode.sh is looking for:

xcode-select should be in every OS X, I think and returns a null result if there is no Xcode. xcodebuild will be installed with Xcode; I only have Xcode command-line tools for my Monterey system, and it returns an error saying so.

xcode-select -print-path
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

xcodebuild -version
Xcode 4.3.3
Build version 4E3002

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to Darieb:

I can find no such error nor any reference to mdfind in the "main.log" that I think I sent. Perhaps you mixed up logs?

I was saying that the other log, the one in #57142​, contains the mdfind line I quoted while yours does not, therefore even though the error message ("No version of Xcode found") is the same in both tickets, the cause and/or solution might turn out to be different from the one in that ticket.

Replying to Darieb:

BTW, Xcode has built-in answers to some of the questions that xcode.sh is looking for:

xcode-select should be in every OS X, I think and returns a null result if there is no Xcode.

Sure. I can't guess why the developer of osxfuse chose to write their own code to find Xcode rather than use xcode-select. You'd have to ask them. Maybe they've already changed it in later versions. We can't check because ​osxfuse is no longer open source.

You could probably still use the patch attached to #57142​ which hardcodes the value /Applications/Xcode.app into the script, or write your own patch to use xcode-select if you prefer.

[Darieb]

Thank you for the pointers and help. I patched xcode.sh, consistent with the #57142 AND with use of xcode-select. The compile worked, and osxfuse got installed.

diff xcode.sh

120c120 < xcode_path=xcode-select -print-path ---

xcode_path="${xcode_app_path}/Contents/Developer"

122c122 < done < <(echo /Applications/Xcode.app) ---

done < <(mdfind -onlyin "/Applications" 'kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == "com.apple.dt.Xcode"')