Saturday, February 18, 2012

Installing Xcode 4.3 Confuses Homebrew (Briefly)

I have a lot of catching up to do, iOS-development-wise. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the work I get to do at my day job, which is All Clojure All The Time. But that doesn't leave a lot of time for iOS development.

In an effort to not fall too far behind, I installed Xcode 4.3, which promptly trashed my /Developer directory (not a bad thing, really). Homebrew was supposedly updated to cope, but when I tried to brew install graphviz today, it complained about not finding the developer directory there.

I was able to convince graphviz to install without resorting to symlink-ing, using the following incantation:
sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/