[swift-users] swift binary in /usr/bin

[Joe Groff]

> On Feb 25, 2016, at 7:54 AM, Ryan Baxter via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed a Swift Development snapshot of the package manager on my system and added /Library/Developer/Toolchains/swift-latest.xctoolchain/usr/bin/swift to my path.  However when I do 'which swift' in my terminal it points to a binary in /usr/bin.  When I run 'swift build --help' I get '<unknown>:0: error: no such file or directory: 'build'' so clearly it is not the right swift binary.  I am not sure where the binary came from in /usr/bin but I cant delete it because OSX is telling me that it is needed by the operating system.  Has anyone encountered this before?

OS X puts forwarding stubs for various developer tools into /usr/bin that launch the corresponding tools from the active Xcode or Command Line Tools installation. IIRC you're supposed to use xcode-select, or change the toolchain within Xcode itself, instead of putting the toolchain directly in your path. You can then use `xcrun swift` to run swift with the correct environment set up.

-Joe

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