The following reply was made to PR pkg/33799; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gilles Dauphin <Gilles.Dauphin@enst.fr>
To: pkg-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: tech-pkg@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/33799: ar, as, ld and similar should be integrated into the TOOLS framework
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:16:29 +0200 (CEST)

 > From: rillig@NetBSD.org
 > 
 > The toolchain utilities like ar, as, ld, strip, size should be
 > integrated into the tools framework. This makes it possible to install
 > binutils on Solaris and keep pkgsrc working.
 > 
 > Currently, the GNU binutils are not supported on Solaris by pkgsrc, and
 > indeed they do not work. But if they are installed and ${LOCALBASE}/bin
 > is before /usr/ccs/bin in the path, most packages will use them instead
 > of the native ones, leading to build failure.
 > 
 
 And what about a kind of second stage of boostrap for all tools
  needed by Solaris.
 maybe a meta-pkg or somethings like xpkgwedge or x11-links
 
 And tools.SunOS.mk could be write like:
 
 ...
 .if exists(/usr/pkg/bin/ggrep)
 TOOLS_PLATFORM.egrep?=          /usr/pkg/bin/gegrep
 TOOLS_PLATFORM.fgrep?=          /usr/pkg/bin/gfgrep
 TOOLS_PLATFORM.grep?=           /usr/pkg/bin/ggrep
 .endif
 TOOLS_PLATFORM.egrep?=          /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -E
 TOOLS_PLATFORM.fgrep?=          /usr/xpg4/bin/fgrep
 TOOLS_PLATFORM.grep?=           /usr/xpg4/bin/grep
 ...
 
 Just an idea.
 Gilles