Re: macOS 11 Big Sur and MacPorts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 15, 2020, at 16:53, John Chivian wrote:

> For me, every time Xcode is updated, the first time I start it following its 
> update I am prompted to update components,

Yes.

> and the current version command line tools are installed.

No. "Components" are not "command line tools". You must also update the command 
line tools separately.

> Perhaps the manual xcode-select is required if you don't actually start Xcode 
> the application following its update.
> 
> My experience with MacPorts and Big Sur (as before with Catalina) was to 
> simply follow the MacPorts update instructions, after updating and starting 
> Xcode as described above, but without that manual xcode-select step.

You *MUST* update the Xcode command line tools separately in addition to 
updating Xcode.