subversion port misses coreutils dependency

[tim.stoop@…]

It need the coreutils for /opt/local/bin/ginstall. Another option would be to use /usr/bin/install, but if you use ginstall, please create a dependency on coreutils. Thanks.

Priority set to high, since subversion won't build without it.

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

Subversion's configure script will pick ginstall if it's there (or will use install if it's not).

This is only a build-time dependency, and I don't think it's worth it to force subversion to build with the system-provided install (and installing coreutils isn't necessary for installing subversion).

Please let me know if I'm missing something that is broken because of this, otherwise I don't believe it's necessary to fix this.

[tim.stoop@…]

As I said, I needed to install coreutils or else subversion wouldn't build. Maybe the autodetect code is broken or something? I did a complete new install of all my used ports (port -f uninstall installed; port clean --all all; port install <my default list of ports>) and subversion wouldn't build because it couldn't find ginstall. After I installed coreutils manually, subversion installed.

So I think something is broken in the port (either the dependency or the autodetect code).

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

Well, I've never seen that happen with my test machines, so I need a little more information to help see this.

If you could attach the full log of a failure

(port clean --all subversion && port -dv install subversion)

then I can investigate further.

Thanks!

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