> ar and ranlib and the like are utilities most ports use to compile, and 
> they're expected to be provided by Xcode's command line tools, so we don't 
> declare dependencies on them, just like we don't declare dependencies on gcc, 
> sed, awk, grep, gawk, etc. cctools happens to provide (newer versions of?) 
> the same software, so I'd only declare a dependency on it if the versions 
> Xcode provides are too old.

> That's not necessary unless you absolutely need *our* version of cctools.

That makes sense; thanks.

vq
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