When use xcframework a link is created in OTHER_LDFLAGS

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What did you do?

Run pod install

What did you expect to happen?

Install xcframework without linking a static framework in OTHER_LDFLAGS.

OTHER_LDFLAGS = $(inherited) -l"xml2" -framework "Accounts" -framework "Security"

What happened instead?

A static framework link was created in OTHER_LDFLAGS, this is wrong why the xcode tries to compile but reports the error "framework 'SOAPEngine' not found"

OTHER_LDFLAGS = $(inherited) -l"xml2" -framework "Accounts" -framework "Security" -framework "SOAPEngine"

and I had to use a script in the pod file to remove it, see post_install which is now commented out/disabled.

CocoaPods Environment

Stack

   CocoaPods : 1.15.2
        Ruby : ruby 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 revision e51014f9c0) [arm64-darwin23]
    RubyGems : 3.4.22
        Host : macOS 14.3.1 (23D60)
       Xcode : 15.2 (15C500b)
         Git : git version 2.39.3 (Apple Git-145)
Ruby lib dir : /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ruby/3.2.2_1/lib
Repositories : cocoapods - git - https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git @ 9c3fa56a759cfa8f281a303b9d035a079b8a582a
               trunk - CDN - https://cdn.cocoapods.org/

Installation Source

Executable Path: /opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/bin/pod

Plugins

cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.5
cocoapods-plugins     : 1.0.0
cocoapods-pod-linkage : 0.0.1
cocoapods-search      : 1.0.1
cocoapods-trunk       : 1.6.0
cocoapods-try         : 1.2.0

Podfile

# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
# platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'SOAPTest' do
  # Comment the next line if you don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  # Pods for SOAPTest
  pod 'SOAPEngine', :podspec => '~/Desktop/SOAPTest/SOAPEngine/SOAPEngine.podspec'

end
#
# remove -framework SOAPEngine with script
#
#post_install do |installer|
#    installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
#        target.build_configurations.each do |config|
#            xcconfig_path = config.base_configuration_reference.real_path
#            xcconfig = File.read(xcconfig_path)
#            xcconfig_mod = xcconfig.gsub(/-framework "SOAPEngine"/, "")
#            File.open(xcconfig_path, "w") { |file| file << xcconfig_mod }
#        end
#    end
#end

Podspec

Pod::Spec.new do |s|
  s.name 					= 'SOAPEngine'
  s.version 				= '1.43'
  s.summary 				= 'This generic SOAP client allows you to access web services using a your iOS and Mac OS X app.'
  s.license 				= { :type => 'MIT', :file => 'LICENSE.txt' }
  s.authors 				= { 'Danilo Priore' => 'support@prioregroup.com' }
  s.homepage 				= 'https://github.com/priore/SOAPEngine'
  s.social_media_url 		= 'https://twitter.com/danilopriore'
  s.libraries 				= 'xml2'
  s.source 				= { :http => 'file:/Users/danilo/Desktop/SOAPTest/SOAPEngine/SOAPEngine.zip' }
  s.xcconfig				= { 'HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS' => "${PODS_ROOT}/#{s.name}/**" }
  s.vendored_frameworks 	= 'SOAPEngine.xcframework'
  s.preserve_paths 			= 'SOAPEngine.xcframework'
  s.frameworks			= 'Security'
  s.ios.deployment_target   = '7.1'
  s.ios.xcconfig 			= { 'HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS' => '/usr/include/libxml2' }
  s.ios.framework			= 'Accounts'
  s.tvos.deployment_target	= '9.0'
  s.tvos.xcconfig 			= { 'HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS' => '/usr/include/libxml2' }
  s.osx.deployment_target   = '10.9'
  s.osx.framework			= 'AppKit'
  s.osx.framework			= 'Accounts'
end

Project that demonstrates the issue

SOAPTest.zip