On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:47:05PM +1000, Olivier Mehani wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:38:52AM -0400, Brad wrote:
> > > I'm trying to build a port (jabberd14-1.6.0b8 from [0], to be precise)
> > > on a system on which libtool has already been installed as a binary
> > > package:
> > > When making the port, though, the system tries to install an older
> > > version:
> > > Do anyone of you have an idea/explanation or advice about this problem
> > > and how to solve it?
> > First off.. you did not specify which version of OpenBSD you are using. 
> > Based
> > on the libtool version you have installed I would guess a snapshot just past
> > the 4.0 release.
> 
> OpenBSD 4.3, but updated from older version (that used to be a 4.0 fresh
> install).
> 
> > >From the version of libtool trying to be installed it looks as if the 
> > >ports tree
> > on this system is from 3.6. The ports tree should be updated to match the 
> > release
> > of the base system that you are currently using.
> 
> Damnation, you're right. I dug out a port-tree upgrading script and used
> it without checking. It actually contains a "cvs -z9 get -rOPENBSD_3_6
> -P ports"... Stupid me. Anyway, for the sake of curiosity, where are
> these version number defined?

In devel/libtool

You're using an old version of the ports tree, so dependency number checking
is somewhat different from what it's become in more recent versions...

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