ports.macports.org gives strange port dependencies

[Joshua Root]

On 2022-9-25 01:13 , Christopher Jones wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 24 Sep 2022, at 3:52 pm, Arjun Salyan <arjun at macports.org 
>> <mailto:arjun at macports.org>> wrote:
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>> The output of "port info pciids” from the same Docker container says:
> 
> Can you please run
> 
>  > port -d info pciids
> 
> pipe the output to file and send it here ? I want to see if we can 
> figure out what is leading port to decide to add these deps.

Compiler selection doesn't depend only on the platform, it looks at the 
actual versions (and existence) of the compilers available on the 
system. It's just another way in which a static PortIndex can't reflect 
the dynamic values of Portfile variables.

So to make this work as you want, you'd have to either make a way to 
inject a fake compiler_version_cache, or provide compiler executables 
(or something that looks like them) that report the desired versions on 
the system running portindex.

- Josh