Unable to get MacPort functionality after installing Xcode 4.3

Question

I am having trouble getting MacPorts to function properly. I just installed OSX Lion 10.7.3 I downloaded and installed MacPorts first, and then after reading the requirements, I

Answer 1

As of 27/2/2012, the official suggestion from MacPorts seems to be to not use XCode 4.3 and instead use 4.1 through 4.2.1, which can be downloaded from Apple.

There is a bug ticket which might be useful to follow the evolution of this.

Incidentally, and as reported in my comment #11 in that bug report, I am able to build ports without warnings by using the 2 most sane-looking suggestions found in this question: sudo /usr/bin/xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer and changing developer_dir in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain