Error "making" the program on macOS: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path

[tbartholomaus]

Hi Chad et al., I'm trying to set up dataselect on my mac (MacOS 10.15.7). I've git cloned the dataselect directory into /usr/local/bin/ and then typed "make" and I'm getting an error.

(base20) [TCB-MBP] dataselect $ make
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
(base20) [TCB-MBP] dataselect $ ls
ChangeLog LICENSE   Makefile  README.md doc       libmseed  src
(base20) [TCB-MBP] dataselect $

Can you be a little more detailed in the README.md or in the doc directory, about how best to install and get dataselect up and running on different systems?

Thanks! Tim

[chad-earthscope]

Hi @tbartholomaus,

That error looks like a system problem and nothing to do with dataselect itself. I've added some details to the README, but really this comes down to having a working build environment (C compiler and make program) on your system.

I ran a Google search for "xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun"

and this is the top hit: https://ma.ttias.be/mac-os-xcrun-error-invalid-active-developer-path-missing-xcrun/

[tbartholomaus]

Sorry for what turned out to be a trivial "issue" @chad-iris, I got spooked when I saw "build from source" and I got a first error. And I thought I already had Xcode installed. Anyway, feel free to adopt or reject my suggested pull request. Thanks again.

[chad-earthscope]

no worries, thanks for the contribution.