port fails to parse Portfile (and completely loses that port) if xcrun not available

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

Eg,

Failed to parse file x11/wine-devel/Portfile: can't read "configure.compiler": Failed to locate 'xcrun' in path: '/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin' or at its MacPorts configuration time location, did you move it?

Total number of ports parsed:	398 
Ports successfully parsed:	356 
Ports failed:			42 
Up-to-date ports skipped:	12965

The following installed ports are outdated:
clang-3.1                      3.1-r146339_1 < 3.1-r147925_1   
coreutils                      8.14_0 < 8.15_0           
ImageMagick                    6.7.4-0_0 < 6.7.4-6_0     
llvm-3.1                       3.1-r146339_1 < 3.1-r147925_1   
py25-crypto                    2.4.1_0 < 2.5_0           
py25-wxpython                  2.8.9.1_0 < 2.8.12.1_0    
py26-crypto                    2.4.1_0 < 2.5_0           
py27-crypto                    2.4.1_0 < 2.5_0           
wideload:src/MacPorts 0:31$ which xcrun
xcrun not found
wideload:src/MacPorts 0:32$ man xcrun
No manual entry for xcrun
wideload:src/MacPorts 0:47$ port cat wine-devel       
Error: Port wine-devel not found
wideload:src/MacPorts 0:48$ 

MacPorts (including base) at r88965, Mac OS X 10.5.8, Xcode 3.1.2.

Note that this affects more than 10% of ports updated in svn for me.

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

Replying to stephen@…:

Note that this affects more than 10% of ports updated in svn for me.

Oops, no, it's worse than that. I can't upgrade any of the ports listed as outdated, either, without xcrun.

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

MacPorts trunk r89102, Mac OS X 10.5.8 PPC, Xcode 3.1.2.

$ sudo port configure mmencode
--->  Configuring mmencode
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: can't read "configure.compiler": Failed to locate 'xcrun' in path: '/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin' or at its MacPorts configuration time location, did you move it?

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

Looks like xcrun was introduced in Xcode 3.1.3. After upgrading to Xcode 3.1.4 I now have /usr/bin/xcrun.

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

Replying to pixilla@…:

Looks like xcrun was introduced in Xcode 3.1.3. After upgrading to Xcode 3.1.4 I now have /usr/bin/xcrun.

Thank you very much for the hint!

In the spirit of paying forward, I learned that Apple hides their old dev tools, but doesn't make them completely inaccessible. A post on the web pointed me to

​http://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wo/5.1.17.2.1.3.3.1.0.1.1.0.3.1.3.3.1

You will need to log in as an ADC member (AFAIK you can sign up for free at ​http://developer.apple.com/). You may need to change the section of that page from Applications to Developer Tools in the right-hand "Dowloads" sidebar. The XCode 3.1.4 download link is way down the page, approximately bottom of the middle third.

[jberry@…]

Resolved in r89359. The check for xcrun is now guarded inside the catch clause. If xcrun is not present, then the conventional compiler search will still find it.