The following reply was made to PR pkg/29945; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Soren Jacobsen <snj@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/29945 CVS commit: [pkgsrc-2005Q1] pkgsrc/mk
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:42:33 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	pkgsrc
 Committed By:	snj
 Date:		Thu May 12 21:42:33 UTC 2005
 
 Modified Files:
 	pkgsrc/mk [pkgsrc-2005Q1]: bsd.pkg.mk
 
 Log Message:
 Pullup ticket 488 - requested by Lubomir Sedlacik
 infrastructure fixes regarding whitespace
 
 Revisions pulled up:
 - pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk	1.1615, 1.1632
 
     Module Name:    pkgsrc
     Committed By:   tv
     Date:           Thu Apr 21 15:53:53 UTC 2005
 
     Modified Files:
             pkgsrc/mk: bsd.pkg.mk
 
     Log Message:
     Work around brain damaged autoconf by stripping leading and trailing
     whitespace from *FLAGS and LIBS before doing :Q quoting.
 
     Should fix PR pkg/29945.
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     Module Name:    pkgsrc
     Committed By:   jlam
     Date:           Tue May 10 01:34:05 UTC 2005
 
     Modified Files:
             pkgsrc/mk: bsd.pkg.mk
 
     Log Message:
     In make variables, quotes protect embedded whitespace in words, so we
     can replace :C/^ *//:C/ *$// with :M* to get the same effect -- removing
     leading and trailing whitespace and extra spaces between words.
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.1601 -r1.1601.2.1 pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk
 
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