Failed: phase compiling: xcode-0-0 failed

Heinz Nabielek via Fink-beginners <[email protected]>
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From: Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Failed: phase compiling: xcode-0-0 failed
> Date: 16. August 2021 at 22:54:10 CEST
> To: Heinz Nabielek <[email protected]>
> Cc: fink-beginners <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: fink-beginners <[email protected]>
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> One of the best ways to alienate people who want to help you is to send all-caps messages.  Doubly so when you’re “yelling” at UNPAID VOLUNTEERS for something that YOU DIDN”T PAY FOR.
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> Here’s what’s going on in more detail than you want.  I don’t really care.
> 1. Back when Xcode included command-line tools, we started using an “xcode” virtual package to indicate the version of that.  I believe that the test we used is the same as we use for the “xcode.app” virtual package now.
> 2. When the Command-Line Tools split off from Xcode we elected to persist using “xcode” to indicate the command-line-tools version.
> 3.  Unfortunately, at that time, there wasn’t a good command output that gave the command-line tools package version other than to check the receipt.  Now the clang compiler version is approximately the same as the Command-Line Tools package version, but that wasn’t the case originally.  In hindsight, we shouldn’t have done that, but I didn’t want to change the established behavior.
> 4.  Apple is really bad about handling packages, so every OS update breaks the command-line tools receipt detection.  Other things, too.
> 5.  Fink is an unmonetized VOLUNTEER PROJECT, and we have the equivalent of about 1 full-time person at most to fix stuff.  Probably less than that.
> 
> Yes, this is annoying.  You can work around it by using “fink dumpinfo -finfofile” to get the names of any packages that cause this problem and then remove the “xcode” dependency.  Then use “fink index -f” to rebuild the package cache.  This is less of a hassle than reinstalling the command-line tools, probably. 
> 
> The long-term fix would be for us to update fink to use a more robust detection mechanism, like maybe just the clang output.


I am so sorry. 

Unfortunately, I get
fink dumpinfo -finfofile
Information about 11466 packages read in 7 seconds.
Failed: fink dumpinfo: no package(s) specified

and I do not know what to do next.
Heinz

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