On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> wrote: > > 'fish' needs 'bc' as a propagated input. I have noticed runtime errors > due to absence of bc. It's also mentioned here: > > https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell#runtime-dependencies > > Quoting the relevant paragraph: > > "fish requires a number of utilities to operate, which should be present > on any Unix, GNU/Linux or OS X system. These include (but are not > limited to) hostname, grep, awk, sed, which, and getopt. fish also > requires the bc program."
A runtime dependency does *not* mean that an input should be propagated. Propagation is a solution of last resort. Instead, try finding the places where 'bc' is referenced in the fish source and replace it with the absolute path to the binary. Thanks, - Dave