The following reply was made to PR pkg/36563; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/36563 (Cannot bootstrap pkgsrc on AIX 5.3 (circular dependency
 w/ patch and digest))
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:10:45 +0200

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 Louis Guillaume wrote:
 >  This is with pkgsrc-2007Q1.
 
 Please try the appended pkgsrc/mk/patch/bsd.patch-vars.mk file.
 
 Roland
 
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 # $NetBSD: bsd.patch-vars.mk,v 1.4 2007/05/25 14:21:32 rillig Exp $
 #
 # This Makefile fragment is included separately by bsd.pkg.mk and
 # defines some variables which must be defined earlier than where
 # bsd.patch.mk is included.
 #
 # The following variables may be set in a package Makefile:
 #
 #    PATCHFILES is a list of distribution patches relative to
 #	${_DISTDIR} that are applied first to the package.
 #
 #    PATCHDIR is the location of the pkgsrc patches for the package.
 #	This defaults to the "patches" subdirectory of the package
 #	directory.
 #
 # The following variables may be set by the user:
 #
 #    LOCALPATCHES is the location of local patches that are maintained
 #	in a directory tree reflecting the same hierarchy as the pkgsrc
 #	tree, e.g., local patches for www/apache would be found in
 #	${LOCALPATCHES}/www/apache.  These patches are applied after
 #	the patches in ${PATCHDIR}.
 #
 
 # The default PATCHDIR is currently set in bsd.prefs.mk
 #PATCHDIR?=	${.CURDIR}/patches
 
 # Just testing whether the directories exist or not is not enough.
 # There may be directories that are empty except for the CVS metafiles.
 _ALL_PATCHES=	# none
 .if defined(PATCHFILES) && !empty(PATCHFILES:M*)
 _ALL_PATCHES+=	${PATCHFILES}
 USE_TOOLS+=	digest:bootstrap
 .endif
 .if defined(PATCHDIR) && exists(${PATCHDIR})
 _ALL_PATCHES+=	${:!echo ${PATCHDIR}/patch-*!:N*/CVS:N*/patch-\*}
 USE_TOOLS+=	digest:bootstrap
 .endif
 .if defined(LOCALPATCHES) && exists(${LOCALPATCHES})
 _ALL_PATCHES+=	${:!echo ${LOCALPATCHES}/${PKGPATH}/*:N*/CVS:N*/\*}
 .endif
 .if !empty(_ALL_PATCHES:M*)
 USE_TOOLS+=	patch
 .endif
 
 # These tools are used to output the contents of the distribution patches
 # to stdout.
 #
 .if defined(PATCHFILES)
 USE_TOOLS+=	cat
 .  if !empty(PATCHFILES:M*.Z) || !empty(PATCHFILES:M*.gz)
 USE_TOOLS+=	gzcat
 .  endif
 .  if !empty(PATCHFILES:M*.bz2)
 USE_TOOLS+=	bzcat
 .  endif
 .endif
 
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