The following reply was made to PR pkg/33324; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33324: build problem with gsed
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:57:18 +0200

 tannert@mis.mpg.de wrote:
 > SunOS 6.9 Generic_118558-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
 
 Just for curiosity: what's the 6 in SunOS 6.9?
 
 > The build process hangs at
 > "checking how to build HTML documentation ..."
 > There are no errors! The build process hangs and has to be stopped with ^C.
 > Seems to be an Problem in the /work/sed-4.1.1/configure file!
 
 I have analyzed the problem. The call chain looks like this:
 
 ./configure =>
          ./config/missing --run makeinfo --help
 
 ./config/missing =>
          ${WRAPPER_BIN}/makeinfo --help
 
 ${WRAPPER_BIN}/makeinfo =>
          ${PKGSRCDIR}/mk/gnu-config/missing makeinfo --help
 
 ${PKGSRCDIR}/mk/gnu-config/missing =>
          sed -n '/^@setfilename/ { s/.* \([^ ]*\) *$/\1/; p; q; }' --help
          (in line 284)
 
 I don't know how to fix the problem properly. As a workaround try 
 pressing ^D instead of ^C, which will continue the build process.
 
 Roland