Re: [PATCH] Fix Makefile.macosx for users without Xcode

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Josh,

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 08:27:41 -0500 josh <joshnatis0@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello there, hope you're all well.
>
> I recently ran into trouble building Chicken on my MacOS system (Big Sur
> 11.2.3) due to issues with command-line tool paths. There was a change in
> c6a6a26225620b566f8bc487cc4180de55555a2a that assumed the user has Xcode
> installed, and that the tools are within /Applications/Xcode.app/.
>
> However, it's possible to install command-line tools on MacOS without Xcode
> (if one tries to run e.g. `gcc` on a fresh MacOS install you'll be prompted
> to do so), in which case the Makefile's assumptions are not sufficient. This
> patch adds a check to see if Xcode is installed, and if not uses the tools
> in /usr/bin instead.
>
> (Please note that this is my first patch to Chicken, and first patch in
> general :P, so my apologies if I'm missing anything. I'm also not familiar
> with GNU's make so I hope the construct I chose is portable enough.)
>
> Thank you all for your time and hard work!

Thanks for your patch.  Not sure if you got any feedback on it?  If not,
apologies for the embarrassingly long time to reply.

The change looks sensible to me, but I don't have an OSX system to test
it.

Any takers?

All the best.
Mario
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