The following reply was made to PR pkg/30956; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chapman Flack <nbgnats@anastigmatix.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/30956
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:50:54 -0500

 A MAKEFILE FOR EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF THE FOUR VERSIONS:
 
 This Makefile creates some evilly-named files in the current directory,
 to show the effect of the forms that are not globbing-protected.
 
 all : 904 1275 1296 1300
 
 904 : prepare
 	pkg='abc>=1.2.*' ;\
 	sh -c 'echo "$$@"' dummy PKGNAME_REQD=$$pkg
 
 1275 : prepare
 	pkg='abc>=1.2.*' ;\
 	sh -c 'echo "$$@"' dummy PKGNAME_REQD="$$pkg"
 
 1296 : prepare
 	pkg='abc>=1.2.*' ;\
 	sh -c 'echo "$$@"' dummy PKGNAME_REQD=\""$$pkg"\"
 
 1300 : prepare
 	pkg='abc>=1.2.*' ;\
 	sh -c 'echo "$$@"' dummy PKGNAME_REQD=\'$$pkg\'
 
 prepare :
 	>PKGNAME_REQD=abc\>=1.2.x
 	>PKGNAME_REQD=\"abc\>=1.2.x\"
 	>PKGNAME_REQD=\'abc\>=1.2.x\'
 
 test :
 	pkg='abc>=1.2.*' ;\
 	${MAKE} ${MAKEFLAGS} nothing PKGNAME_REQD="$$pkg"
 
 nothing :
 	echo ${PKGNAME_REQD:Q}
 	ps -ww -o args
 	env