The following reply was made to PR pkg/37075; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37075 (readme target broken on Slackware Lunix 10.2)
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:28:25 +0200

 On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:20:02AM +0000, De Zeurkous wrote:
 >  > exec does not use built-in or function, but expects a real program.
 >  > Therefore you are calling the wrong make.
 >  
 >  It was merely a construction to avoid exactly this kind of replies. I'm
 >  using an interactive shell and certainly no exec in practice. Besides,
 >  I've already debunked this 'myth' on pkgsrc-users. Please re-open.
 
 This behavior is implemented by bash as well. Try
 env() { echo here
 }
 exec env
 
 I won't waste any further time on this.
 
 Joerg