XcodesOrg / XcodesOrg/xcodes

install is failing when using brew install xcodesorg/made/xcodes

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Description

HI,

We use xcodes in automation and have been using brew to install xcodes as part of those pipelines. We noticed today that it was failing during some test runs but it did work a little over a week ago.

brew install xcodesorg/made/xcodes FAILS see below
brew install xcodes WORKS

Did something change?

Using the recommended way from this github site results in:

brew install xcodesorg/made/xcodes ==> Auto-updating Homebrew... Adjust how often this is run with $HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECSor disable with$HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1. Hide these hints with $HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS=1(seeman brew`).
==> Tapping xcodesorg/made
Cloning into '/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/xcodesorg/homebrew-made'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 28, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (28/28), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (21/21), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (28/28), 7.13 KiB | 3.56 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 28 (delta 5), reused 4 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Tapped 1 formula (15 files, 14.7KB).
==> Fetching downloads for: xcodes
✔︎ Formula xcodes (1.6.2)
==> Installing xcodes from xcodesorg/made
==> make install prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/xcodes/1.6.2
Last 15 lines from /Users/daniel.leeds/Library/Logs/Homebrew/xcodes/01.make.log:
2025-11-12 21:27:44 +0000

make
install
prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/xcodes/1.6.2

error: xcbuild executable at '/Library/Developer/SharedFrameworks/XCBuild.framework/Versions/A/Support/xcbuild' does not exist or is not executable
make: *** [xcodes] Error 1`

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Start by reproducing brew install xcodesorg/made/xcodes and inspect the xcodes Homebrew formula plus the make install entry point that invokes xcbuild. Compare the failing Xcode/macOS environment with the working brew install xcodes path. Done means the recommended brew command installs xcodes successfully in the reported automation setup.

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Assessment

Tech stack
macos, swift
Domain
build-system, cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
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Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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