On Jan 26, 2007, at 13:34, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:59 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 26, 2007, at 01:26, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
The latest git-core Portfile makes the port rcs a runtime dependency to git-core but there is no such port called rcs, at least port search rcs doesn't show up. Do you smell a broken port?
Yeah, that's been broken since at least April 2006:
<http://opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2006-April/033325.html>
But what exactly is broken? As I said, git-core compiles just fine for me, since a binary called rcs, as requested by the port, does already exist on my system. Does it not exist on yours? What error do you see when you try to compile git-core?
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.
With 10.4, we can definitely assume it's just there, so the fix is simply to remove that dep altogether. Though, if you look at that thread, most of the issues didn't seem to be of interest...