Build Error - anaconda3 OSX + crash report

[marmolRBG]

Hello devs and community,

I have a major build failure when going to run the tests for the MOOSE build in my conda moose env. This started the other while working with Github and doing a make clean then and attempting to make my MOOSE app which was previously working. I ran an update with Big Sur, then after updating conda, and recompiling moose, the failure occurs at:

cd ~/projects/moose/test
make -j 4 # <--- build error
./run_tests -j 4 

I then went to the conda troubleshooting and failed to run the script:

cd /tmp
cat << EOF > hello.C
# include ...

The failure also prevented me from running make altogether for other cpp applications. I could not isolate the problem to Xcode, anaconda etc, so I did a factory reset and reinstalled Big Sur 11.3, dev tools etc and attempt to reinstall MOOSE.

I then received the same failure messages after repeating the above steps. As per the MOOSE error output, I have attached the error and crash report here below.

Thank you very much in advance for any guidance,

Paul

makeError.txt

mooseEnvBuildTest.txt

pcrecpp-7ca045.cpp.txt

pcrecpp-7ca045.sh.txt

[milljm]

This may be a new Xcode issue. I know a recent update occurred, but I have yet to test it. I'll do that now and report back.

[marmolRBG]

Hello Jason,

Thanks for investigating and confirming this. Strangeness for me as well, as the failure was not linked to the Big Sur update, and I had an older (<=v12.4) version of Xcode that was working previously. Sorry I can't provide more explicit troubleshooting results since I reset the system.

Unfortunately it seems like that command to remove the command line tools will also mess up any other code/toolkit requiring to be built with Xcode, is that correct?

I will also try the above steps Paolo and you mentioned.

[milljm]

Believe it or not, that is Apple's suggested means of removing Xcode CLT (Command Line Tools):

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2339/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40014588-CH1-HOW_CAN_I_UNINSTALL_THE_COMMAND_LINE_TOOLS_

which translates to:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

Installing any version of Xcode is a simple double-click on the Xcode.xip compressed file (Xcode.app is extracted), drag Xcode.app to /Applications, which will replace your current Xcode. After that, you run /Applications/Xcode which allows it to finalize anything it may need to do, and you are done.

You may need to adjust your xcode-select path, if you were strictly using CLT only:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app

Also, the reset feature might work best:

sudo xcode-select --reset

@marmolRBG Good to know, that you too had 12.4 to begin with. Very odd indeed, as that is the version I ended up with, which is what I began with... but now it works. Maybe Xcode needed to be... um, reinstalled?

[pbalest]

take soooooooooooooooooooo long to downlad Xcode😆... I'll let you know if it works Thanks @milljm and @GiudGiud to point me here.

[pbalest]

It worked! Thanks again!

[nolmacdonald]

Can confirm I had the same issue (XCode 12.5 on OS X) and downgraded to 12.4 w/ success.

[cticenhour]

For those who experience a similar issue in the future, I am re-answering this question now that MOOSE also supports Xcode 12.5, 13, and 13.1. Please update your conda packages to the newest versions by performing

conda update --all

within your MOOSE conda environment. See #19289 for more information.