On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:55:06 +0000 (UTC)
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR pkg/34217; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: pkg/34217: lang/python23 and lang/python24 fails to build on
>     Sparc Solaris 10
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:50:04 +0200
> 
>  On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:45:03PM +0000, Raymond Meyer wrote:
>  >  >  No, it is expected behaviour. foo % arg with foo as string is evaluated
>  >  >  like sprintf in C, so any % in foo has to be quoted as %%.
>  >  
>  >  OK, then I should pass '-xbuiltin=%all' compiler flag as '-xbuiltin=\%
>  > all', thus escaping '%' char.
>  
>  I'd still ask you to submit a Python PR, so that they investigate
>  possible quoting upstream, but this is most likely beyond the scope of
>  pkgsrc.
>  
>  Joerg
>  

I have, apparently they already know about the problem and I think it has been
fixed in their development tree.