macports without XCode

[Federico Calboli]

On 7 Nov 2012, at 14:06, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:

>> Which packages if I can ask?  because they might be packages that I do not want nor need.
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> I grepped to find 148 packages using our xcode includes explicitly (xcode.*1\.0). There may be more that were manually built without using our PortGroup files.

Unless these packages are essential to using macports, and thus unavoidable, 148 packages are a trivial percentage of the packages provided by macports.  Couldn't I just avoid them altogether?

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>> How so?  I would have imagined it's the CLT that make the difference, after all they mast be installed for macports.
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> ...and Xcode must also be installed.
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> We do version detection using `xcodebuild -version` (see zlib for an example). We would need an alternative to this if it's not installed.

That's fine, and as I said I accept the space penalty of having to have Xcode, but I fail to see why the versioning could not be done on clang or llvm (or whatever thing is in the CLT package that could be used for this)

BW

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