XCode command line tools enough for MacPorts?

Tue May 15 05:09:12 PDT 2012

At 11:41 AM +0200 5/15/12, Harry van der Wolf wrote:
>We now have the "XCode command line tools" since March 2012. An 
>initiative you probably have heard of and started by Kenneth Reitz 
>(0,1) and now fully supported by Apple. They can be downloaded from 
>within XCode 4.3.x or directly as a command line tool set. This last 
>is of course the preferred way (IMO) for MacPorts.
>This "XCode command line tools" package  is a 170MB download instead 
>of a 6+GB download.
>Are these command line tools not enough for MacPorts?
>

We went through this when it was released:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.macports.user/26951/focus=27002

Short answer, MacPorts needs a full XCode install.

Craig