The following reply was made to PR pkg/37148; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37148: _CHECKSUM_CMD not defined if NO_CHECKSUM="yes"
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:39:25 +0200

 On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:35:00PM +0000, lacombar@gmail.com wrote:
 > if NO_CHECKSUM="yes" is defined in Makefile and that patch exists,
 > the call to ${_CHECKSUM_CMD} in `../patch/patch.mk:300` will result in:
 > -p: command not found
 
 In which situation did you hit this? It was generally considered to be
 an error to do this. The only really valid reason to have NO_CHECKSUM in
 a package is if the files are local.
 
 Joerg