When an iOS build variable resolves to empty, the visible xcconfig file is rarely the problem — the xcconfig was correct the whole time. The real failure mode is the pbxproj: grep for baseConfigurationReference and you may find zero entries, meaning the build system has no source to expand variables from. This is how XcodeGen's configs: key can be silently ignored while everything else appears to work.
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