grant beattie wrote:

<snip>
> 
> I'm not sure about the "test: unknown operator invalid", but it
> appears you're being bitten by a tr(1) bug in Solaris which bmake
> trips over.
> 
> try setting MACHINE_ARCH=i386 in /etc/mk.conf or on the command line.
> 
> afaik, this has been resolved in more recent versions of bmake, but
> bootstrap-pkgsrc has not yet been updated to use the latest version.
> 
> g.
> 

This seems to have done the trick.  The only thing additional that i had 
to do was to reinstall pkg_install-info.  Apparently, the original one 
had been generated with a.out binaries for some reason.

Thanks!