I wrote:

>Investigation shows that the linker is failing because the pkg system
>isn't making the symlinks required by NetBSD's ELF subsystem (At
>least, they're required on a pmax, and I copied the setup from the
>alpha.  See the symlink rules in bsd.lib.mk.)
>
>Making the symlinks libtk80.so.1 -> libtk80.so.1.0) and libtk80.so ->
>libtk80.so.1 and rerunning make seems to work.  But the pkg system
>should be using the correct NetBSD rules to build libraries.

Which then immediately fails after building and installing tcl and
linking an gainst it -- expect, if it matters -- because the pkg
makefile isn't setting either the rpath, rpath-link, or soversion
appropriately for ELF (at least, ELF on on a BSD box):

ldd ./work/expect-5.25/expect
./work/expect-5.25/expect:
         -ltcl80 => not found
         -lutil.4 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.4
         -lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0
         -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12

Grr. No version number, no matching lib. (at least I think that's
what's wrong: I triple-checked /usr/pkg/lib and ld.so.conf).

Again, see either bsd.lib.mk, or the ELF imake template in our X11 tree.
Unless someone can confirm this all `Just Works'  on  NetBSD/Alpha?


Not to knock the package people, they're clearly doing an incredibly
useful job on a.out systems, and possilby Alphas, but this is *very*
frustrating to see after being encouraged to make binary packages...