Dependency on developer tools

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 23, 2009, at 15:14, Jack Howarth wrote:

> I know in fink, if one does a clean install that blows away the
> Xcode installation, when the installed fink is executed it does
> a check for a system compiler and throws an error that Xcode
> needs to be installed if it doesn't find one. Something like that
> would be fine.

I agree that would be nice too. That's a variant of this request:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12794


> Trying to maintain a separate toolchain using
> Apple's open source releases seems to be asking for trouble
> since it assumes that the open source tool chain releases are
> throughly tested in that configuration (outside of the Xcode
> installation).

Right.