OSX 10.8 xcrun (No such file or directory)
Solution 1
Unfortunately, at least the last time I played with it, I found you really can't use xcrun
with just the standalone Command Line Tools
package. It apparently wasn't designed for that use case; the standalone package is a fairly recent innovation with Xcode 4. If the product you are trying to install really depends on xcrun
, you may need to install the full Xcode.app
distribution to get around it. That, or modify the distribution's Makefile et al to not use xcrun
. Or, possibly (untested), create some directories and/or symlinks to fake xcrun
into thinking you have Xcode.app
installed - a messy hack.
Solution 2
Type in these commands on the console:
sudo xcode-select -switch /usr/bin
sudo mv /usr/bin/xcrun /usr/bin/xcrun-orig
sudo vim /usr/bin/xcrun
Enter the following into your dummy xcrun file:
#!/bin/sh
$@
Then make it executable:
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/xcrun
Solution 3
Even with Command Line Tools installed, your xcode-select is strange. It should be pointing into your XCode bundle, not /usr/bin
:
$ xcode-select -print-path
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
Switch it to Xcode like this:
$ sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app
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Lukas Grebe
Updated on June 14, 2022Comments
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Lukas Grebe almost 2 years
When executing
gem install jekyll
on OSX 10.8 with the standalone Command Line Tools package from Apple's Developer site installed (no Xcode), i run into the following error:Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing jekyll:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
…
xcrun cc -I. -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin12.0 -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin12.0 -I. -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -fno-common -DENABLE_DTRACE -fno-common -pipe -fno-common -c porter.c xcrun: Error: failed to exec real xcrun. (No such file or directory)
gcc is installed:
$ which cc /usr/bin/cc
the look-up path for xcrun is set:
xcode-select -print-path /usr/bin
yet no matter which arguments i try, xcrun will always return
xcrun: Error: failed to exec real xcrun. (No such file or directory)
man xcrun
reads "When xcrun is invoked with the name xcrun , the flags -log and -verbose are useful debugging aids. The flag -no-cache can be used to bypass cache lookup." but none of this seems to have any effect: the only output remains the above…Solution: following Ned Deily's advice below, i've replaced xcrun with a shell script to simply call the given arguments:
#!/bin/bash $@
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Ned Deily over 11 yearsBy "Command Line Tools installed", do you mean you only have the standalone
Command Line Tools
package installed from the Apple Developer site without installingXcode.app
or do you have Xcode.app installed and then installed itsCommand Line Tools
component from theXcode.app
Preferences
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Lukas Grebe over 11 yearsThe standalone package from Apple's Developer site. - I modified the question to make this more clear. Sorry about the confusion.
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chrischris about 11 yearsIt was easy enough to override my path:
export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH
to specify an override file of~/local/bin/xcrun
to include the hack. I also had to runsudo xcode-select -switch /usr/bin
to match the-print-path
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Erik Kaplun over 10 yearsLooks like the hack needs to be put in
/usr/bin/xcrun
not anxcrun
override somewhere else in thePATH
.
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Lukas Grebe over 11 yearsi just have the Command Line Tools installed, not Xcode. Setting the Path to /usr/bin made the most sense to me, as compilers reside there… switching thus results in an error:
xcode-select: Error: Path "/Applications/Xcode.app" is not a directory.
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Lukas Grebe over 11 yearsWhat a dirty hack! I wonder when it'll come back to bite me: I replaced xcrun with a two line shell script: #!/bin/bash $@
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Ned Deily over 11 yearsHeh. Another thing: the standalone Command Line Tools does not provide SDKs like the full Xcode does. So if what you are building requires an SDK for an earlier OS level, you'll need the full Xcode install.
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Tom Rossi about 11 yearsWow. That hack worked for me! It ain't pretty, but better than installing over a gig of crap I don't need.
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James Boutcher about 8 yearsxcode-select: error: invalid developer directory '/usr/bin' ?