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

Daniel Dunbar daniel_dunbar at apple.com
Thu Feb 25 11:34:53 CST 2016


That is correct.

Ryan, did you install the 2.2 stable snapshot? It is expected that that snapshot doesn't include the Swift package manager (swift-build). If you want it, you should install the development snapshots.

 - Daniel

> On Feb 25, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Joe Groff via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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> 
>> On Feb 25, 2016, at 7:54 AM, Ryan Baxter via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org <mailto: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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