xcode-select -switch doesn't work: active developer path does not exist

Question

I have installed Xcode 5 developer preview 3. Before it i had developer preview 2 and now, sometimes in my terminal I see error, for example when I try to autocomplete some commands by tab:

error: active developer path ("/Applications/Xcode5-DP2.app/Contents/Developer") does not exist, use xcode-select to change

I try to change this directory by executing command:

sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode5-DP3.app/Contents/Developer

Now xcode has correct path because command

sudo xcode-select -print-path

shows me result:

 /Applications/Xcode5-DP3.app/Contents/Developer    

but I still see the same error in terminal, see attached: https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/120Z1S0b1Q302w3J453U/Screen%20Shot%202013-07-24%20at%2016.34.23.png?v=45e9961b

Solution 1

It happened to me once: xcode-select -print-path did stick to the same value and wasn't changing. It appeared that it was always equal to DEVELOPER_DIR environment variable. According to the manpage of xcode-select:

When DEVELOPER_DIR is set, its value will be used instead of the value last passed to -switch xcode_path

So, unsetting DEVELOPER_DIR makes xcode-select -switch working.

Solution 2

Try changing the path in xcode itself.

Solution 3

If you do a:

man xcode-select

It tells you to set the path with:

xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode-DP4.app

As I've just switched to DP4 to test. That worked for me. I didn't see it point to any of the .app contents. I guess this was probably changed from previous versions...

Solution 4

If you are running beta release. Path should be look like this.

sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer

Solution 5

Sometimes, space characters don't allow to take path correctly. So you may prefer to use \ character to include space into the path like below;

$ sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode\ 10.2.app/Contents/Developer

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