pkg/48695: cross/binutils-mips-current fails configuring in "opcodes" subdirectory

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>Number:         48695
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       cross/binutils-mips-current fails configuring in "opcodes" 
>subdirectory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 01 03:55:01 +0000 2014
>Originator:     John D. Baker
>Release:        NetBSD/i386-5.2_STABLE, pkgsrc-2014Q1 (plus 
>cross/binutils/mips-current from pkgsrc-HEAD)
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD verthandi.technoskunk.fur 5.2_STABLE NetBSD 5.2_STABLE (VERTHANDI) #13: 
Wed Dec 18 05:44:53 CST 2013  
sysop%verthandi.technoskunk.fur@localhost:/d0/build/netbsd-5/obj/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/VERTHANDI
 i386

>Description:
Building "cross/binutils-mips-current" (to support building
port-playstation2) fails while configuring in the "opcodes" subdirectory
as follows:

[...]
Configuring in ./opcodes
configure: creating cache ./config.cache
checking build system type... i386--netbsdelf
checking host system type... i386--netbsdelf
checking target system type... mips--netbsdelf
checking for i386--netbsdelf-gcc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for library containing strerror... none required
./configure.lineno: 3236: Syntax error: Bad substitution
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in 
/d0/build/pkgsrc/cross/binutils-mips-current/work/binutils-2.23.91
[...]


The failing line reported is:

[...]
       choke me
[...]

which is part of a here-document test program embedded in the fragment:

[...]
if test "${ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu+set}" = set; then :
  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
else
  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
/* end confdefs.h.  */

int
main ()
{
#ifndef __GNUC__
       choke me
#endif

  ;
  return 0;
}
_ACEOF
if ac_fn_c_try_compile "3243"; then :
  ac_compiler_gnu=yes
else
  ac_compiler_gnu=no
fi
rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu=$ac_compiler_gnu

fi
[...]
>How-To-Repeat:
Attempt to build "cross/binutils-mips-current" from pkgsrc-HEAD
(on netbsd-5/i386 if it matters).
>Fix: