git-core requires rcs?

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:59 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Jan 26, 2007, at 01:26, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
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>>> 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.

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...

Bryan