On May 30, 2017, at 4:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: >> Another semi-weird solution would be to somehow declare a list of >> "high priority" ports that always get updated first even if no other >> port depends on them (either in the core or as a special keyword in >> the Portfile). > > My initial impression of this idea is that I like it, for gawk, grep, gsed, > and any others that are automatically searched for by default configure > scripts. But remember that those ports have dependencies. Not many, but each > of those dependencies would have to be handled by my previous suggestion, > modifying each to ensure only the system version of those utilities is used.
For this particular class of problems (autoconf picking up gawk/gsed, etc.) base could populate the environment with the system awk/sed etc. (ie base could do what the APR port does with configure.env). Or, base could auto-add these soft dependencies for anything that does the 'normal 'configure' phase. -- Daniel J. Luke
