The following reply was made to PR pkg/32599; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Neil Hoggarth <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32599: pkg libidn-0.6.1 fails to extract with error "bad
 substitution"
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:36:50 +0000 (GMT)

 Apologies for the partially completed PR form - finger slip! The rest of 
 the fields are as follows.
 
 Environment: SunOS saros 5.9 Generic_118558-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-30
 
 Full Description: When attempting to build devel/libidn, the "extract"
 phase stops with an error message "bad substitution".
 
 [...]
 ===> Extracting for libidn-0.6.1
 ===> Required installed package pkg_install-info-[0-9]*: pkg_install-info-4.5nb3 found
 ===> Required installed package gettext-lib>=0.11.5nb4: gettext-lib-0.11.5nb6 found
 ===> Required installed package libgetopt>=1.3: libgetopt-1.4.1 found
 ===> Required installed package libiconv>=1.9.1nb4: libiconv-1.10nb3 found
 ===> Required installed package libtool-base>=1.5.18nb5: libtool-base-1.5.18nb6 found
 ===> Required installed package patch>=2.2: patch-2.5.4nb2 found
 ===> Required installed package pkg-config>=0.19: pkg-config-0.20 found
 ===> Required installed package gcc3-c>=3.3.5: gcc3-c-3.3.5 found
 /usr/pkgsrc/devel/libidn/../../mk/scripts/extract: bad substitution
 *** Error code 1
 
 Stop.
 
 How to repeat the problem:
 
 cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/libidn
 bmake clean
 bmake extract
 
 
 Regards,
 -- 
 Neil Hoggarth                                Departmental Computing Manager
 <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>                   Laboratory of Physiology
 http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/                  University of Oxford, UK