[43026] trunk/dports/devel/git-core/Portfile

[Joshua Root]

Simon Ruderich wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:08:43PM -0600, Adam Mercer wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 15:03,  <simon at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>>> devel/git-core: Add missing dependency to variant svn.
>> Why is this needed, I've been using git-svn for quite a while and
>> don't have the unixODBC port installed and I've never ran into
>> problems?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Adam
> 
> I'm not sure. I've removed some unnecessary ports (found through port
> dependents) and then git-svn failed. After installing unixODBC it worked, so I
> thought adding it as dependency would fix it.

Could be that git-core includes code that uses unixODBC only if the
latter is present at build time. If so, the alternative solution would
be to make sure it never includes that support.

- Josh