The following reply was made to PR pkg/28993; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Vladislav Sekulic <vlad.sekulic@utoronto.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/28993
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:38:32 -0500

 The reason configure failed was due to readline's builtin.mk file.  
 Awaiting fixes there (by J. Lam), here is the new Makefile for
 ratpoison.  Then things should just work, without having to disable
 history:
 
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 # $NetBSD$
 
 DISTNAME=       ratpoison-1.3.0
 CATEGORIES=     wm
 MASTER_SITES=   http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/ratpoison/
 
 MAINTAINER=     vsekulic@sdf.lonestar.org
 HOMEPAGE=       http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
 COMMENT=        Simple window manager with no fat library dependencies
 
 DEPENDS+=       bash-[0-9]*:../../shells/bash
 
 USE_BUILDLINK3= yes
 USE_X11=        yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE=  yes
 
 INFO_FILES=     ratpoison.info
 
 .include "../../devel/readline/buildlink3.mk"
 .include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"
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