configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

[leedavis@…]

I found ​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30375 and so went to the AppStore, did an install of Xcode, and rebooted my system.

My complete noob guess is the new way of installing Xcode, via the App Store, does not set up some shell variable? What is the workaround?

I still got

sudo port -v selfupdate
Password:
--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
receiving file list ... done
./

sent 59 bytes  received 535190 bytes  214099.60 bytes/sec
total size is 29518864  speedup is 55.15
Creating port index in /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports

Total number of ports parsed:	0 
Ports successfully parsed:	0 
Ports failed:			0 
Up-to-date ports skipped:	8176

--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done
./
deleting config.log

sent 42 bytes  received 6779 bytes  4547.33 bytes/sec
total size is 2960227  speedup is 433.99
MacPorts base version 1.9.1 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.0.1 downloaded.
--->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.0.1
Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:admin; permissions 0755; Tcl-Package in /Library/Tcl

checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin11.0.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin11.0.0
checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin11.0.0
checking MacPorts version... 2.0.1
checking for sw_vers... /usr/bin/sw_vers
checking for defaults... /usr/bin/defaults
checking for xcode-select... no
checking Mac OS X version... 10.7
checking Xcode version... 3.2.4
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
shell command "cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-tclpackage=/Library/Tcl --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with-directory-mode=0755 --enable-readline && make && make install" returned error 1
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command failed

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

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You don't appear to have installed Xcode 4.1. As shown in the output, xcodebuild -version is returning 3.2.4. One possibility is that you didn't run the Xcode installer after downloading it from the App Store.