Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] fix Mac OS X build

[Felix Winkelmann]

From: Jim Ursetto <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] fix Mac OS X build
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:02:42 -0600

> For the path -- actually, the build tools should be in /usr/bin, and if they 
> are not, you just have to run `xcode-select --switch 
> /Applications/XCode.app`.  This should install the shims into /usr/bin -- at 
> least that's my understanding.  You can also use `xcrun` to run command-line 
> tools associated with the currently selected XCode, but generally, they 
> should be available already as shims in /usr/bin.  If this is correct, I 
> would rather use Apple's official method of switching between command-line 
> tools than hardcode it into Chicken's makefiles.

Then why isn't this in the README? Does the "shims" include install_name_tool 
and ar and everything, or just gcc?


felix