On OS X, if you don't have a full Xcode installation, but just the Command Line Tools package, xcrun and xcodebuild don't return a valid SDK root path. In these cases, let's use "/" as the SDK root (which is where the headers and libraries are installed).
See http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20150202/256851.html.