Citando Bryan Blackburn :
On Jan 26, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 26, 2007, at 13:34, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
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You're right, it should compile just fine with a normal 10.4 install (I'm not sure if rcs, in the BSD package on 10.4, was also in BSD in 10.3, which I think was still optional). The only issue is that the dependency claims that it can be resolved by installing the rcs port, which doesn't exist.
Ah, is that what it means? The portfile says "depends_run ... bin:merge:rcs ..." Does that mean "I need the binary called merge, and if there isn't one, install the port rcs"? I'm still muddling my way through the portfile syntax.
Yup, that's it; this is the older dependency style, before port:portname became the preferred. In fact, had this port been upgraded to port:rcs, then it'd definitely break. I think at this point the few uses for the old bin:program:portname and lib:libname:portname is for big things which we accept as valid pre- installed dependencies like X11.
In fact, this dependency scheme permits to require something that may be provided by different ports and a preference if it is not found. I don't think it is really used like that but specifying bin:psql:postgresql8 would probably be a good idea for dealing with the many different postgres versions that exist. I have used it in the signing-party port because there are 3 different gnupg ports which probably all install a gpg binary (which is sufficient ofr signing-party). Emmanuel