Perry, I’ve just run into this problem with TeXShop4. The build phase succeeds, but destroot fails.
How does one revert to the “old” build system under Xcode 10? > On Sep 28, 2018, at 8:12 AM, Perry E. Metzger <[email protected]> wrote: > > [resending as I messed up the first time...] > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 00:21:17 -0500 Ryan Schmidt > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sep 26, 2018, at 17:14, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> >>> It seems that there's a bad interaction between Xcode 10's new >>> build system and certain ports. "pinentry-mac" is the only one >>> I've hit so far but there may be others. The kludge is to tell >>> Xcode 10 (if it is the version running) to use its old build >>> system. If you hit this, try the kludge I've added to >>> "pinentry-mac" as a temporary workaround. >>> >>> (Note that Xcode 10 also seems to be much more strict about >>> include file paths, which necessitated a distinct required fix >>> on "pinentry-mac".) >> >> Could you describe what the problem or error is, so we'll >> recognize it if we run into it? > > Sorry for being too oblique. It only impacts things built from Xcode > projects, like Mac GUI apps. > > The deal is that there's a distinction now between the "new" and > "old" Xcode build system. "New" was added in 10. Xcode projects can > simply fail to destroot when built with "new" because of an apparent > bug. (We're pretty sure it's a bug because it will hit an empty, > brand-new Cocoa project.) > > You can see the symptoms by trying to build pinentry-mac without > turning off the new build system. > > You will hit this only on Xcode projects, not on building ordinary > stuff, and you can kludge around it by turning off the new build > system for the destroot phase as I've done for > pinentry-mac. Unfortunately the flag is only understood by Xcode 10 > so it can't be just used all the time. > > Note that the new build system is also much more strict about many > things, you may have to clean up latent sloppy code (like the use of > <include.h> for something that should be "include.h" in C) to get > things to build with the new build system. > > Perry > -- > Perry E. Metzger [email protected] Marius -- Marius Schamschula
