The following reply was made to PR pkg/34217; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Raymond Meyer <raymond.meyer@rambler.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>,
	pkg-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/34217: lang/python23 and lang/python24 fails to build on
 Sparc Solaris 10
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:44:28 +0100

 On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:40:03 +0000 (UTC)
 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/34217; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/34217: lang/python23 and lang/python24 fails to build on
 >     Sparc Solaris 10
 > Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:38:10 +0200
 > 
 >  On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:35:02PM +0000, Raymond Meyer wrote:
 >  >  Well I could live without Python being built with '-xbuiltin=%all' flag,
 >  > but the most interesting question is: is it a bug that Python can't handle
 >  > strings with '%' char? I think it is a bug, there has to be a way to print
 >  > strings that contain such special chars.
 >  
 >  No, it is expected behaviour. foo % arg with foo as string is evaluated
 >  like sprintf in C, so any % in foo has to be quoted as %%.
 >  
 >  Joerg
 >  
 
 OK, then I should pass '-xbuiltin=%all' compiler flag as '-xbuiltin=\%all',
 thus escaping '%' char.
 
 I guess this PR can be closed