It is a macOS alias. I use soft links a lot, but only for items that I’m accessing when working in a Unix shell.
Jim 3222 NE 89th St Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 430-0109 > On Mar 13, 2022, at 1:46 PM, xpl...@wak.co.nz wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> >> >>> On 14/03/2022, at 06:41, James Secan <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> 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. >>>> >>> >> >
