The following reply was made to PR pkg/32886; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg@britannica.bec.de
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32886 (pkgsrc libtool makes ksh dump core on Solaris 10)
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:28:56 +0100

 On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:25:02PM +0000, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
 >  joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
 >  >  Does shells/pdksh or so work well enough that it could be added as
 >  >  bootstrap tool and as default shell for pkgsrc? 
 >  
 >  Probably, but I would prefer to keep the bootstrap is simple as possible 
 >  and the Solaris bash seems to work fine.
 
 The problem with bash is that it is sometimes not behaving and that it
 is not very light-weight either. Given that this shell would be used a
 lot, having a small / fast shell can make more sense.
 
 Joerg