The following reply was made to PR pkg/32955; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: rudolf <netbsd@eq.cz>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: manu@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/32955 (hobbitmon package exits configure when using bash
 as shell)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:22:20 +0100

 Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/32955; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: manu@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus)
 > To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, pkg-manager@netbsd.org,
 > 	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, wiz@netbsd.org,
 > 	netbsd@eq.cz
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/32955 (hobbitmon package exits configure when using bash as shell)
 > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:15:11 +0100
 > 
 >  <wiz@netbsd.org> wrote:
 >  
 >  > Synopsis: hobbitmon package exits configure when using bash as shell
 >  > 
 >  > Responsible-Changed-From-To: pkg-manager->manu
 >  > Responsible-Changed-By: wiz@netbsd.org
 >  > Responsible-Changed-When: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:26:49 +0000
 >  > Responsible-Changed-Why:
 >  > Over to maintainer.
 >  
 >  That's not a bug report for NetBSD: /bin/sh as a hard link to /bin/bash
 >  is a Linux thing.
 
 Right, it's a bug report for pkgsrc and according to documentation, 
 Linux is supported by pkgsrc.
 
 >  
 >  Moreover, I cannot reproduce the problem by replacing my /bin/sh by a
 >  bash: everything works fine.  
 >  
 >  I use bash-3.0pl16nb2
 
 # cd /usr/pkgsrc/net/hobbitmon
 # make install
 
 [...]
 
 ===> Registering installation for apache-1.3.34nb1
 apache-1.3.34nb1 requires installed package expat-1.95.8nb2
 apache-1.3.34nb1 requires installed package libmm-1.4.0
 ===> Returning to build of hobbit-4.0b6nb2
 ===> Patching for hobbit-4.0b6nb2
 ===> Applying pkgsrc patches for hobbit-4.0b6nb2
 ===> Overriding tools for hobbit-4.0b6nb2
 ===> Creating toolchain wrappers for hobbit-4.0b6nb2
 ===> Configuring for hobbit-4.0b6nb2
 
 Configuration script for Hobbit
 
 ./configure: line 222: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
 ./configure: line 222: `                fi'
 *** Error code 2
 
 Stop.
 make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/net/hobbitmon
 ===>
 ===> There was an error during the ``configure'' phase.
 ===> Please investigate the following for more information:
 ===>      * log of the build
 ===>      * /usr/pkgsrc/net/hobbitmon/work/.work.log
 ===>
 *** Error code 1
 
 Stop.
 make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/net/hobbitmon
 # uname -a
 NetBSD my.name 3.0 NetBSD 3.0 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 19 01:04:02 UTC 2005 
  
 builds@works.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/i386/200512182024Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC 
 i386
 # ls -l /bin/sh*
 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  555032 Mar  1 11:58 /bin/sh
 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  131139 Mar  1 11:58 /bin/sh.orig
 # /bin/sh --version
 GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386--netbsdelf)
 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 - it's copy of /usr/pkg/bin/bash from pkgsrc package bash-3.0pl16nb3
 
 Regards,
 
 r.