trunk is becoming increasingly broke: findutils won't build any longer

[Richard PALO <richard.palo%baou.fr@localhost>]

there are recently some serious regressions affecting packages that used 
to build just fine: (on openindiana with gcc472)
since around a fortnight I've twenty packages or so that no longer build.

one is findutils:

here is partial log:

> => Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: found digest-20121220
> => Checksum SHA1 OK for findutils-4.2.33.tar.gz
> => Checksum RMD160 OK for findutils-4.2.33.tar.gz
> ===> Installing dependencies for findutils-4.2.33nb3
> => Build dependency nbpatch-[0-9]*: found nbpatch-20100124
> => Build dependency pax>=20040802: found pax-20080110nb2
> => Build dependency gcc47>=4.7.2: found gcc47-4.7.2nb1
> => Full dependency pkg_install-info-[0-9]*: found pkg_install-info-4.5nb3
> => Full dependency gettext-lib>=0.18: found gettext-lib-0.18.2
> ===> Overriding tools for findutils-4.2.33nb3
> ===> Extracting for findutils-4.2.33nb3
> ===> Patching for findutils-4.2.33nb3
> => Applying pkgsrc patches for findutils-4.2.33nb3
> ===> Creating toolchain wrappers for findutils-4.2.33nb3
> ===> Configuring for findutils-4.2.33nb3
> => Modifying GNU configure scripts to avoid --recheck
> => Replacing config-guess with pkgsrc versions
> => Replacing config-sub with pkgsrc versions
> => Replacing install-sh with pkgsrc version
> => Fixing locale directory references.
> bash: (: No such file or directory
...
> Making all in testsuite
> Making all in doc
> Making all in po
> Making all in m4
> => Unwrapping files-to-be-installed.
> bash: line 0: .: -t: invalid option
> .: usage: . filename [arguments]