The following reply was made to PR pkg/29791; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/29791
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:34:51 -0800 (PST)

 On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Jussi Liukkonen wrote:
 
 > > Is it okay if we close this PR since it doesn't appear to be
 > > NetBSD or Pkgsrc specific?
 >
 > AFAIK this _is_ netbsd specific, since as noted, the problem doesn't
 > appear in any other known (to me :-) environment. This leads one to
 > consider pkgsrc's netbsd patches, or netbsd's libraries, to be the
 > culprits. (I actually forgot to list solaris 8 and 9, in which the same
 > versions of bash work OK with the same setup).
 >
 > But yeah, I can toss this up to bash developers (or debug it myself, in
 > case of sudden burst of free time).
 
 I tested with bash as provided by the Debian package 2.05a-11 on a Debian
 3.0 system.
 
 I may have misunderstood the problem or how to check.
 
 reed@sloth:~$ echo $PS[pressed TAB here twice]
 $PS1  $PS2  $PS4
 
 And two spaces in-between each above.
 
 My PS1 ends with a space and my PS2 ends with a space.
 
  Jeremy C. Reed
 
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