Problems on Mavericks with only Command Line Tools installed

I have installed the Command Line Tools:

$ xcode-select --print-path
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

However, when anything tries to use node-gyp, I get the following error:

$ npm install bcrypt
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bcrypt
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bcrypt
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings/1.0.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings/1.0.0

> bcrypt@0.7.7 install /Users/Oliver/Development/sbscribe/node_modules/bcrypt
> node-gyp rebuild

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

gyp: Error 1 running xcodebuild
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:424:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/Oliver/Development/sbscribe/node_modules/bcrypt
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.21
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.10
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! weird error 1
npm ERR! not ok code 0

On Mountain Lion it was possible to use this without installing the whole of Xcode, rather just the Command Line Tools. Is it possible to do this on Mavericks? How can I get it working?

N.B. This is on a clean install of Mavericks.

[jesstelford]

To re-iterate @Poohblah’s solution:

The Error

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

The Solution

1. Run which xcodebuild in the terminal. If it gives no output, continue to step 2. If it gives output, then this solution will not work for you.

2. Create a file /usr/local/bin/xcodebuild. In that file, use your favourite editor to add the contents:

   #!/bin/bash
   
   exit 0
   

3. Save that file, and exit your editor.

4. Give the file the correct permissions by running sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/xcodebuild

5. You’re done! Re-run he command that caused the error.

[jesstelford]

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