Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/libuuid

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On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 04:51:31PM +0000, Benny Siegert wrote:
> Module Name:  pkgsrc
> Committed By: bsiegert
> Date:         Sun Nov  4 16:51:31 UTC 2018
> 
> Modified Files:
>       pkgsrc/devel/libuuid: Makefile.common
> 
> Log Message:
> Only configure libuuid using ksh on NetBSD 6.
> 
> The build of ksh is all but broken on modern systems. PR pkg/52877
> introduced ksh as CONFIGURE_SHELL to fix NetBSD 6, but this causes issues
> on NetBSD-8 and later (PR pkg/53686). Arguably, the workaround could be
> dropped, since we stopped supporting NetBSD 6.
> 
> Fix proposed by David H. Gutteridge, thanks!

We pick ksh in a lot of places as an alternative shell, not just here.
That's because it doesn't use pdksh in most cases but a shell from base.