The following reply was made to PR pkg/29216; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: georg.schwarz@freenet.de (Georg Schwarz)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/29216
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:35:09 +0100

 I can confirm that the suggested change to mk/bsd.pkg.mk, replacing grep
 by ${GREP}, makes the problem go away, at least on my system (IRIX 5.3).
 Since directly using grep is definitely a bug the suggest change should
 be applied.
 
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