The following reply was made to PR pkg/33236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Tannert <tannert@mis.mpg.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33236: Error in /pkgsrc/bootstrap
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:43:59 +0200 (MEST)

 Dear Mr.Reed,
 
 hmm, you are of course right, this is not a normal bug.
 
 I am working with a tcsh. Perhaps this is a problem.
 
 It think the bootstrap source should be able to run on every supported System.
 
 The error occurs only in the latest versions. Perhaps it is possible to replace 
 the ^ with something else.
 
 Best regards
 Andreas Tannert
 
 >From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
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 >Subject: Re: pkg/33236: Error in /pkgsrc/bootstrap
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 >The following reply was made to PR pkg/33236; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 >From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
 >To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 >Cc: 
 >Subject: Re: pkg/33236: Error in /pkgsrc/bootstrap
 >Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:33:16 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 tannert@mis.mpg.de wrote:
 > 
 > > SunOS 5.9 Generic_118558-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
 > 
 > I don't think this hits you.
 > 
 > > >How-To-Repeat:
 > > start bootstrap
 > > >Fix:
 > > Change [^0-9] to [0-9] on line 320
 > 
 > I am not sure it is a bug. (Is this causing it to fail on your Solaris 
 > system?)
 > 
 > But I do see that different implementations of shells honor that ^ 
 > differently.
 > 
 > NetBSD's sh(1) and ksh(1) ignore the ^ (carat).
 > 
 > Bash makes it mean "not" (like regex) and is documented. And it does what 
 > is expected on DragonFly's sh(1) too -- except not documented.
 > 
 >  Jeremy C. Reed
 >