Will Xcode 4.4 be OK with MacPorts under Lion

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 26, 2012, at 08:52, Damon McDougall wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 03:58:58PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 25, 2012, at 15:22, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> 
>>>> I'm still running Lion (but preparing for upgrading to Mountain Lion).
>>>> 
>>>> Update from Xcode from 4.3 to 4.4 is now available at the App Store.
>>>> 
>>>> Will Xcode 4.4 still work OK under Lion with MacPorts?
>>> 
>>> There are no significant changes to file structure of Xcode 4.4--it should work without any problems with MacPorts unless Xcode itself has an internal bug.
>>> 
> 
> Might one need to run:
> 
> sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
> 
> so that MacPorts can see where the new version of XCode is (espeically
> since 10.6 doesn't have the App Store).
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

If you were upgrading from Snow Leopard and not from Lion, then sure, you would need to do that. That's also spelled out in our documentation.

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#xcode-select