I forgot to ad, the reason, at a unix level, the Finder alias just just another boring file, not the intended alias. This is similar to how Windows shortcuts look on Macs, where they come through as a .lnk file that the Mac doesn’t understand.
-- Richard Smith xpl...@wak.co.nz > On 14/03/2022, at 09:43, xpl...@wak.co.nz wrote: > > Is it a Mac Alias, or a unix ln ? (i.e. the former is created with a > drag-n-drop of the App holding down the Command & Option keys, while the > former is created with the command ln -s /path/to/app lnfile, and that is a > lowercase L, not an uppercase i). MacPorts will work better with the latter > ln alias, not the former finder created alias. > > -- > Richard Smith > xpl...@wak.co.nz <mailto:xpl...@wak.co.nz> > > > > >> On 14/03/2022, at 06:41, James Secan <james.se...@gmail.com >> <mailto:james.se...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I do have the full Xcode package installed (8.2.1) on the El Capitan system, >> although I have it as an alias in the Applications directory (on a smallish >> SSD) linking to the actual Xcode files on an internal HD because it requires >> a lot of disk real estate and I never use Xcode. Would that confuse port >> diagnose? (I just checked, and if I click on the Xcode alias it works just >> as one would expect, so the alias linkage is OK.) >> >> Jim >> 3222 NE 89th St >> Seattle, WA 98115 >> (206) 430-0109 >> >>> On Mar 12, 2022, at 6:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org >>> <mailto:ryandes...@macports.org>> wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 10, 2022, at 18:40, James Secan wrote: >>> >>>> In working my way through my recent “phantom ports” issue I ran the >>>> command “port diagnose” and was more than a bit surprised by the output >>>> line: >>>> >>>> Error: currently installed version of Xcode, none, is not supported by >>>> MacPorts. >>>> >>>> followed by a list of the version supported under my version of macOS (El >>>> Capitan, in this case). Where is port getting this information? I have >>>> Xcode 8.2.0 installed, and none of my attempts to install ports have run >>>> into any trouble related to Xcode not being installed. I ran "pkgutil -v >>>> --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables” which shows that I have >>>> 8.2.0 installed, and the appropriate MacOSX.sdk files are in >>>> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs. I also tried this on my test >>>> Catalina system, with the same result. >>>> >>>> Is something wrong with my ports setup? >>> >>> >>> Both com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables and >>> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs are related to the Xcode command >>> line tools, which are separate from Xcode. So I guess you have the Xcode >>> command line tools installed but do not have Xcode installed. For many >>> ports, this is fine. For those where it is not, they should tell you to >>> install Xcode. >>> >> >
