What provides xcodebuild?

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<CAKFCL4XvE5K2fSCWkxXf-91FcySO8tV9NNZ-eKUMdC+imnuv2g at mail.gmail.com>,
 Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>     haral:6722 Z$ pkgutil --file-info =xcodebuild | grep pkgid
>     pkgid: com.apple.pkg.DeveloperToolsSystemSupportLeo
>     pkgid: com.apple.pkg.update.os.10.7.3.11D50b.combo
> 
> The former is part of Xcode, the latter would be best obtained by
> downloading the latest combo updater from Apple.  (Is it me or did Apple
> confuse things rather badly by doing that?)

I think the idea is that xcodebuild et al are supposed to be independent 
of the release of Xcode; they act as a wrapper and pointer to the 
various Xcode versions since it is supported to have multiple versions 
of Xcode installed on the same system (although only one version of the 
command line tools active in /usr/bin at one time).  So rather than 
having each version of Xcode supply duplicate copies of xcodebuild, it's 
supplied with OS X itself;  that also means those commands are available 
to query even if no Xcode is installed.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org