ports/124891: ports devel/aegis make configure finds strverscmp()

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

edwin at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: ports devel/aegis make configure finds strverscmp()
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Being the unofficial co-maintainer of the port I have several questions:

1. Did you already have an old dist file for aegis in your system? (a 
simelure problem was reported and fixed on Debian a dew months ago)

2. What is the ident on your Makefile?

3. How old are the sources you used to build your system/kernel with 
(this was a issue with 8-Current and perhaps 7 a few months ago but has 
since been resolved on 8-Current)?

4. What version of GCC are you using?

Some general comments:

    1. I have been after Ale for a while to use the native Aegis 
configure vs. the ports make file version for a while (on 4.24-RC2 many 
of the FreeBSD build problems where fixed including this one in the 
upstream version of Aegis) so hopefully moving to this will fix some of 
these issues (note to Ale you should be able to get the aepatch/aedist 
version off Walter's aeget site... see the thread between me and Peter 
on aegis-devel for details on what was corrected)

    2. It is incorrect to modify work/aegis-4.24/configure (or any of 
it's dependent files) because at least at the aegis-developer level 
these are recreated for each build (see Howto.cook for details) you 
should be modifing common/ (I think this dir is only present in the 
aedist package version of aegis [you can get it from 
http://aegis.sourceforge.net/aegis-4.24.ae).   If your going to go this 
route you will also need to install devel/cook and devel/fhist (I think 
archive/tardy also but not 100% sure... see the contributing to aegis 
chapter in the user guide)

    --Aryeh