macports and Xcode

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 11, 2008, at 07:50, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

>> Another factor (though I think we're just discussing philosphy, not
>> immediate plans): Every port maintainer and core developer uses  
>> Xcode.
>
> Such a statement had to have an exception: I no longer use Xcode as my
> powerbook is now dead. I use the build tools provided by my linux
> distribution. Note that it becomes difficult as MacPorts trunk  
> believes
> I don't have gcc installed just because my gcc is not the same version
> as Apple's.

Do you encounter an error message or worse? If so, that could be a  
MacPorts bug. Of course we want MacPorts to basically work on other  
operating systems, but many of us have never tested it on other than  
Mac OS X. So let us know what's wrong.