Running gcc when not installed on OS X pops up a gui

[Matt Jones]

If gcc, clang, java, et cetera, are not installed, and the user types them into a terminal. They are then prompted with a gui that asks if they want to install that program or not.

Obviously this sucks, because we can't do "gcc --version" to test for clang. It also probably uses a symlink, to look like it installed.

[Matt Jones (workhorsy)]

Looks like the file:

/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.DeveloperToolsCLI.plist

is created when installed.

Check if there is a file for java too:

ls /var/db/receipts/ | grep -i "java"

[Matt Jones (workhorsy)]

Turns out the java popup just shows how to download it from the web. We can test for dev tools with:

pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables

[Matt Jones (workhorsy)]

Fixed in:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~workhorsy/raise/main/revision/333