[swift-users] swift binary in /usr/bin
Joe Groff
jgroff at apple.com
Sat Feb 27 14:18:01 CST 2016
Ryan Baxter via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> Yes I installed the development snapshot and the swift binary was
> installed in /Library/Developer/... But there was already an existing
> binary in /usr/bin that I can't seem to replace or remove.
The binary in /usr/bin is a stub that forwards to the active toolchain's
swift binary.
-Joe
>
> -Ryan
>
>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Simon Pilkington <simonmpilkington at icloud.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 25 Feb 2016, at 9:34 AM, Daniel Dunbar via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I encountered this as well as I was definitely using the most recent
>> development snapshot - swift-DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2016-02-25-a-osx.
>>
>> The installer said it was successful but I don’t see anything at
>> /Library/Developer/Toolchains.
>>
>>>
>>> - Daniel
>>>
>>>>> On Feb 25, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Joe Groff via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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>> -Simon
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> charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Yes I installed the
> development snapshot and the swift binary was installed in
> /Library/Developer/... But there was already an existing binary in
> /usr/bin that I can't seem to replace or
> remove.<br><br>-Ryan</div><div><br>On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Simon
> Pilkington <
> a href="mailto:simonmpilkington at icloud.com">simonmpilkington at icloud.com</a>>
> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta
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> class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25 Feb
> 2016, at 9:34 AM, Daniel Dunbar via swift-users <<a
> href="mailto:swift-users at swift.org" class="">swift-users at swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br
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> class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;
> -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That is correct.<div
> class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br
> class=""></div>I encountered this as well as I was definitely using the
> most recent development snapshot
> - swift-DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT-2016-02-25-a-osx.</div><div><br
> class=""></div><div>The installer said it was successful but I don’t see
> anything at <span style="color: rgb(41, 41, 41); font-family:
> 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"
> class="">/Library/Developer/Toolchains.</span></div><div><font
> color="#292929" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
> sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font><blockquote type="cite"
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> class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> -
> Daniel</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote
> type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 25, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Joe Groff
> via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users at swift.org"
> class="">swift-users at swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br
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> class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 25, 2016,
> at 7:54 AM, Ryan Baxter via swift-users <<a
> href="mailto:swift-users at swift.org" class="">swift-users at swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br
> class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr"
> class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I recently
> installed a Swift Development snapshot of the package manager on my
> system and added <span
> style="color:rgb(41,41,41);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida
> Grande',sans-serif"
> class="">/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 '</span><font color="#292929"
> face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"
> class="">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?</font></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div
> class="">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.</div><div
> class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Joe</div><br
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