The following reply was made to PR pkg/30911; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/30911: Some packages fail on Solaris2.8 and 2.9 with
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:05:10 +0200

 rquinn@sec.sprint.net wrote:
 > "bmake -d x" suggests the problem location is around line 274 or 282 of mk/install/bsd.pkginstall.mk:
 
 That's right. Johnny added some code there on Jul 29, which uses 
 ${foo#bar}, which is probably non-portable to the old Solaris shell.
 
 I'll check this.
 
 Roland