The following reply was made to PR pkg/33799; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.jun.sechs@onlinehome.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: rillig@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/33799: ar, as, ld and similar should be integrated into the TOOLS framework
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:38:15 +0200

 rillig@NetBSD.org wrote:
 
 > The toolchain utilities like ar, as, ld, strip, size should be
 > integrated into the tools framework. This makes it possible to install
 > binutils on Solaris and keep pkgsrc working.
 
 Let me add a vote for diff3 (and maybe sdiff) from the diffutils
 package. Pkgsrc already handles cmp and diff from this package and at
 least diff3 is needed for devel/rcs. NetBSD contains a usable diff3 in
 the base system (DragonFlyBSD probably as well) but Solaris does not.
 
 ciao
      Klaus