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

From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
To: Lloyd Parkes <Lloyd.Parkes@ird.govt.nz>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, rillig@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/32886 (pkgsrc libtool makes ksh dump core on Solaris 10)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:21:25 -0800

 Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:21:00AM +1300, Lloyd Parkes:
 > 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.
 
 In case its useful to anyone...  I ran into problems w/ pdksh on solaris 9
 when built 64-bit for use with, among other things, libtool.  It's internal
 memory "pool" management has a bug.  I've been meaning to track down the
 error but reducing ICELLS in alloc.c to 0, such that it always mallocs
 instead of carving from a pool, the bug is avoided.