curl: circular dependency introduced due to dependency on brotli

[Torsten-B]

Building cmake or curl currently fails due to a circular dependency:

[torstenb@phoenix:~] sudo port -s install cmake
--->  Computing dependencies for cmake
The following dependencies will be installed:
 brotli
 cmake
 curl
Continue? [Y/n]: y
Error: The following dependencies were not installed because all of them have unmet dependencies (likely due to a dependency cycle): curl brotli cmake
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there is a bug.
Error: Processing of port cmake failed
[torstenb@phoenix:~] sudo port -s install curl
--->  Computing dependencies for curl
The following dependencies will be installed:
 brotli
 cmake
 curl
Continue? [Y/n]: y
Error: The following dependencies were not installed because all of them have unmet dependencies (likely due to a dependency cycle): brotli cmake curl
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there is a bug.
Error: Processing of port curl failed

The circular dependency is caused by cmake requiring port:curl, port:curl requiring port:brotli and port:brotli in turn requiring port:cmake.

This change was introduced in a recent commit that adds brotli support to curl. [e1ed418961c5919aacfeb582bb0baa2d74243a8f/macports-ports]

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ugggggggh.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Possible solutions:

• cmake stops using curl (#65068)
• brotli stops using cmake (#65069)
• curl stops using brotli by default, moving it to a variant

[Torsten-B]

Alternative 3 (curl moving brotli support to a variant) doesn't actually fix the circular dependency, it just moves it to a variant and building that variant wouldn't work unless alternative 1 and/or 2 get implemented as well. Or am I missing something?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

You could build curl without the variant, the dependencies would be installed, and then you could build curl again with the variant. Same strategy is used in a few other ports where such circular dependencies have no other solution (like #55393).

[kencu (Ken)]

brotli has committed to supporting old cmake versioms, so cmake-bootstrap will suffice, and it has no deps

​https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/f4153a09f87cbb9c826d8fc12c74642bb2d879ea/CMakeLists.txt#L5

[reneeotten (Renee Otten)]

has duplicate

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In d2aca51d29a3b894d39754dd090202e8deb85171/macports-ports (master):

brotli: Use cmake-bootstrap

Avoids a circular dependency, since cmake uses curl which now uses
brotli.

Closes: #65065
Closes: #65069

While we're here, remove unnecessary directory creations from
post-destroot.