The following reply was made to PR pkg/36788; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: OBATA Akio <obache@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/36788 (sysutils/skill: update to 4.1.4, and make this build
 on linux and freebsd too)
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:20:55 +0900

 --On 2007/10/28 7:15 +0000 Bernd Ernesti <veego@NetBSD.org> wrote:
 
 >  IMHO mkpatches is broken, because the functions names in the line
 >  numbers cause problems with some patch programs. I think it was MacOS
 >  where it breaks.
 
 I have not seen such an error with my MacOS box up to now...
 
 If there is a platform with patch that causes such an error,
 we should change the specification of mkpatches or change in
 such a platform to use patch with another interchangeability.
 
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 "Of course I love NetBSD":-)
 OBATA Akio / obache@NetBSD.org