The following reply was made to PR pkg/32886; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lloyd Parkes <Lloyd.Parkes@ird.govt.nz>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: rillig@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/32886 (pkgsrc libtool makes ksh dump core on Solaris 10)
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:53:07 +1300

 joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
 >  The problem with bash is that it is sometimes not behaving and that it
 >  is not very light-weight either.
 
 I was a bit worried about that, so I gave libtool driven by bash a bit 
 of a work over and it seemed to build pkgsrc stuff as quick as ksh and 
 it didn't crash or exhibit any odd behaviour.
 
 Cheers
 -- 
 Lloyd Parkes
 Senior Systems Programmer
 Open Systems
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