The following reply was made to PR pkg/34217; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Raymond Meyer <raymond.meyer@rambler.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>,
	pkg-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/34217: lang/python23 and lang/python24 fails to build on
 Sparc Solaris 10
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:37:20 +0100

 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.