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Warning on XCode / Command Line Tools 11

5 messages · Brian Ripley, Kasper Daniel Hansen, Peter Dalgaard

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My Mojave machine today prompted me to update to version 11 of Command 
Line Tools (apparently 'beta 1', but I am not a Beta tester).

In short: don't do that (you can revert to 10.2.1 from the URL above, at 
least if your Apple ID has (free) developer privileges).

CoreFoundation.framework has been removed (and its headers are used in a 
couple of spots compiling R).

Further its seems that 
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg 
is no longer included and setting CPPFLAGS did not suffice.

Hopefully we will have solutions in due course, but that version is 
really for 10.15 Catalina which is months away ('in the Fall', whenever 
that is).
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Thanks a lot for checking this so quickly.

I was alarmed by the label "beta 1", and frankly surprised that this got
pushed to my machine. I believe it is the first time system updated has
suggested a beta version for something on my laptop. I am wondering if this
could have been a mistake; it is Apple Developer Week right now.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:10 AM Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
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FWIW, no updates are suggested for the source-building machine in my office, also running Mojave. (June 5 was Constitution Day and Election Day, so I have been away from the machine until now.)

We do need to keep an eye on the tools though. My current setup is an  -um- eclectic mix (*) of old and new tools, some of which are 32 bit, and this is going to be a problem in 10.15 Catalina. I did try getting the tools better in line with Simon's setup at some point, but there were hiccups and then I ran out of time and couldn't risk collateral damage.

-pd


(*) ="dogs dinner"

  
    
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On 06/06/2019 09:31, peter dalgaard wrote:
It stopping nagging me yesterday afternoon, so likely it was an Apple 
snafu.  (I heard from others who had been caught by this, and of course 
Apple allows for 'automatic' updating so this could happen in the 
background.)
You have a few months yet.  The residual 32-bit applications I have are 
from Adobe, e.g. old uninstallers.

  
    
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OK, I suspected that it might be retracted by Apple (auto-update is turned off on this machine).

Re. time frame, it seems that "Apple fall" is like late September. I recall us getting caught  by having a release scheduled too close to be able to fix Apple-induced incompatibilities. (Presumably that was 3.4.2 on Sep 28 and the issue was time zone file location.)

-pd