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<body><div>Ok that was a real facepalm then drag your hand down your face for emphasis moment.<br></div>
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<div>The swift file I was trying to compile was called `test.swift` which would become `test` once a linked executable. However I was in the root of the <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift">https://github.com/apple/swift</a> repository that already has a `test` directory. That is why it couldn't link. Sigh. Once I renamed it to `ryan` it compiled and linked just fine.<br></div>
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<div>Which then led me back to the actual problem, i.e., could not build swiftpm. Still not sure <b><i>exactly</i></b> what was causing the issue but I was able to get past it.<br></div>
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<div>I started comparing the configuration, home brew, env config, etc, of my work laptop (that didn't work) and my personal laptop (that did work) and I noticed that my work machine had a bunch of homebrew packages that my personal didn't. I uninstalled everything on my work laptop that wasn't on my personal machine. Voila, it builds again.<br></div>
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<div>Apologies for the radio silence. And thank you for all the support that you were not required to give; it is appreciated.</div>
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<div>On Thu, Jan 7, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Max Howell wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica"><span class="size" style="font-size:12px">ld: can't open output file for writing: test</span></span><br></div>
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<div>swiftc can’t write the output to the current directory. When you run this is your current directory writable?<br></div>
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