The following reply was made to PR pkg/36387; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/36387: mk/flavor/pkg/install-dependencies, gtk2+ and PKG_BUILD_OPTIONS
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:03:04 +0200

 On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:05:00AM +0000, Joachim König wrote:
 > Using a "+" in a package name is obviously not a good idea, as
 > make variable names are derived from it. In order to use the
 > "+=" syntax to add a value to the list, one has to add an additional
 > blank that is not necessary for normal variables. 
 
 The problem is not the package name, but the variable name. It
 essentially ends up as calling "make FOO+=bar", which does *not* set
 FOO+. I will fix it by renaming the variable, but I want to ask you to
 check whether it was silently ignored before.
 
 Can you add the following rule to Firefox's make file with a checkout of
 pkgsrc/mk from May 20? cvs up -D is your friend, reset it afterwards
 with cvs up -A.
 
 do-build:
 	@echo ${MAKEFLAGS}