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I ve installed the latest version of MacPorts and Xcode CLI tools for OS X 10.10 - I don't want download 4GB of data because I need only GCC. Everything looks fine - I can download and compile ports, except the one thing - every time when I try to install new port I get following messages:

Warning: xcodebuild exists but failed to execute
Warning: Xcode does not appear to be installed; most ports will likely fail to build.

But as I said before everything works fine. Should I worry or just ignore these messages?

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  • Some tutorials claim that both Xcode and Command Line Tools (CLT) are required. I only installed Xcode; no issue so far. Feb 28, 2021 at 6:58

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You might be lucky and ports work :)

I think the latest I saw in the mailing lists is that most ports will work. The issue is for GUIS and there other issues.

Note that Xcode for OS X 10.10 does not supply gcc, it uses clang. However this works just as well if not better.

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  • Ah, sorry I forgot about clang - I am new on mac, just switched from GNU/Linux :) Dec 6, 2014 at 1:18
  • More specifically, see these posts trac.macports.org/ticket/35045 and trac.macports.org/ticket/29172 where people argue whether this error should be shown at all. Likely all your ports will work, and if it doesn't you can always install Xcode.
    – Tim
    May 5, 2018 at 19:35

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