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command line – Why/how does `man` invoke xcodebuild?

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Generally, when I look for a man page, it comes up immediately and the Terminal title bar shows less - man <cmd>

But the first time I do it after a restart, there is a delay of two or more seconds, and the title bar says xcodebuild - man <cmd>

I have not seen this delay on any other command and I use zsh or bash for more than an hour every day.

Why does this happen and/or is there a way to stop it? Is less or man calling something something that has to be compiled and/or linked and cached? Both less and man are universal binaries dated 24 Aug 2022 with no ACLs or xattr.

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