skiptools / skiptools/skipstone
`skip doctor` fails for lack of `xcodebuild` on fresh install
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- Swift
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Description
On a fresh machine (e.g. UTM), the initial skip checkup will fail, because installing Homebrew will xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools.
[✗] Xcode version: error executing xcodebuild (install from: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/)
In verbose mode:
executing command: /usr/bin/xcodebuild -version
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
[✗] Xcode version: error executing xcodebuild (install from: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/)
(It doesn't matter whether you install Homebrew before or after Xcode. Once Homebrew selects the CLT directory, nothing automatically attempts to reset it to Xcode.)
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Research direction
Reproduce the fresh-install case described in the issue, including Homebrew selecting /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools, and trace the skip checkup path that invokes /usr/bin/xcodebuild -version. Done means the initial checkup no longer fails solely because the active developer directory is the command-line-tools instance.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, swift
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100