Don't warn about missing XCode when only Command Line Tools For XCode are installed

[schwern@…]

You can now download just the command line tools for XCode direct from Apple, a much smaller download and install. ​http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html

Unfortunately, MacPorts will continually warn:

Warning: Xcode does not appear to be installed; most ports will likely fail to build.

My experience says things go fine with just the Command Line Tools install and the warning is misleading clutter. It would be nice if MacPorts noticed the Command Line Tools install and did not warn. Thanks.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

This is by design. Some ports (e.g. those using the xcodebuild port group) require a full Xcode installation and will fail without Xcode.

[schwern@…]

I have 295 active ports and so far, I haven't encountered one that's failed because I don't have a full XCode install. Is it necessary to warn on every port because some need a full XCode install? If the purpose of the warning is to let the user know they need to install XCode to fix a problem, rather than report it as a bug, is it serving its purpose if the warning is more often wrong (and ignorable) than right?

Could there be a flag in the port files which do need a full xcode install and only those would trigger the warning? You mention there's already an xcodebuild group, maybe only the warning could trigger for those ports?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Not all ports that need Xcode use the xcode portgroup.