Re: pkg/43084: Fix devel/scmgit-base on big-endian

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43084; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/43084: Fix devel/scmgit-base on big-endian
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:27:06 +0200

 On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:25:00PM +0000, Holger Weiss wrote:
 > This happens in Git versions newer than 1.6.5.2, as compat/bswap.h now
 > redefines htonl and ntohl to bswap32 not only on selected little-endian
 > platforms (as intended), but also if bswap32 has been defined in the
 > included system headers, which is the case at least on NetBSD.  See also
 > my posting to the Git list:
 > 
 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143453
 
 It should use the system version if present. That often uses inline
 assembler for example.
 
 Joerg