Dan McMahill wrote:
>> this change also reduces the time-consuming step of actually running 
>> the bulk build ;)
>>
>> +----------------------------------------+
>> | Some variables used in the bulk build: |
>> +----------------------------------------+
>> OPSYS           = SunOS
>> OS_VERSION      = 5.9
...
>> PKG_INFO        = /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_info -K /var/db/pkg
>> PKGBASE         = pkglint
>> ------------------------------------------
>> ./mk/bulk/build: error:
>>     Error reading the variables.
>>
>>
>> I think the step where the value is actually assigned to the variable 
>> got left out.
> 
> 
> 
> I forgot to mention this was solaris-2.9.  Running with ksh instead of 
> sh makes it work.

http://wiki.netbsd.se/index.php/The_pkgsrc_portability_guide#Solaris

Hmmm, ok, that article ''still'' doesn't explain this failure. So there 
must be more bugs in /bin/sh. :)

Roland