On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Like you, I am wondering about installing XCode 4.1... but is it necessary? > I need Xcode only to run macports... Yes. You need XCode to build MacPorts or to run other dev tools built in MacPorts (such as compilers which exec part of devtools as you just pointed out).