[bug #59587] Checking Xcode fails

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?59587>

                 Summary: Checking Xcode fails
                 Project: Reproducible paper template
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Tue 01 Dec 2020 02:41:31 PM UTC
                Category: Software
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: Confirmed
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: infantesainz
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Mahdieh just reported this problem:

She recently merged her project with the core 'maneage' branch and wanted to
fully reconfigure the software environment (that was working before). But the
following error showed up immediately after running './project configure -e':



xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer
directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools
instance
-verbatim+

Since she had already built Maneage before, we figured it may be due to the
recent Commit 0c882a44
<http://git.maneage.org/project.git/commit/?id=0c882a44> (where we check to
see if Xcode is available on macOS systems). The problem is also internal to
Xcode apparently, so the 'which xcodebuild' has apparently succeed.

As a fast fix, she commented the line below and the configure script was able
to progress and successfully pass this step.


xcode_version=$(xcodebuild -version | grep Xcode)


I had a fast search but since I am not too familiar with macOS, I couldn't
find the problem. Raul, can you see what is causing this issue so we can
hopefully account for it automatically (or atleast tell the users what to do
to fix it)? 

Alternatively, maybe we can just remove this statement: merely checking for
the existance of 'xcodebuild' can be enough. 

What do you think Raul? Mahdieh can run any test command you recommend to help
debug this, she is in the Cc of this bug.




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