git-core requires rcs?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Jan 25 23:59:59 PST 2007


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?





More information about the macports-users mailing list