The following reply was made to PR pkg/36413; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/36413 (mk/flavor/pkg/metadata.mk: Rev 1.21 shell subst not supported on Solaris)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:01:17 +0200

 On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 10:10:04PM +0000, Klaus Heinz wrote:
 >  Unfortunately, bmake does _not_ use /usr/xpg4/bin/sh for execution of
 >  shell commands but /bin/sh:
 
 That depends on how it was compiled. It exactly has the default shell as
 build parameter, but I would have to look at the details to find out
 how to set it for bootstrap.
 
 Joerg