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authorValentin Volkl <valentin.volkl@cern.ch>2022-11-24 00:20:09 +0100
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docs: update info on XCode requirements (#34097)
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These requirements can be easily installed on most modern Linux systems;
-on macOS, XCode is required. Spack is designed to run on HPC
-platforms like Cray. Not all packages should be expected
+on macOS, the Command Line Tools package is required, and a full XCode suite
+may be necessary for some packages such as Qt and apple-gl. Spack is designed
+to run on HPC platforms like Cray. Not all packages should be expected
to work on all platforms.
A build matrix showing which packages are working on which systems is shown below.