Subject: Re: debugging pkgsrc on Solaris
To: Raymond Meyer <raymond.meyer@rambler.ru>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/06/2006 01:28:34
Raymond Meyer wrote:
>>24420:  execve("/bin/sh", 0x00044488, 0x0004C068)  argc = 3
>>24420:   argv: /bin/sh -c
>>24420:    for str in ; do                                /usr/ucb/echo 1>&2
>>"ERR OR:" "$str";                                     done
>>

I had suspected it. This problem does not only exist on Solaris, but 
also on NetBSD. It's no fault of the Solaris /bin/sh, but of the 
programmer of bsd.pkg.mk who assumed that an empty variable can be 
passed to the shell.

It's fixed in bsd.pkg.mk, revision 1.1860.

Roland