I'm confused about this. I haven't seen any mention of this problem and
it's a step in installing gnome, a project which has taken much, much more
time than I expected.

cc  -O2 -I/usr/pkg/lib/glib/include -I/usr/pkg/include/glib
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/pkg/include
-I/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-netbsd/CORE  -I/usr/pkg/include/python2.0
-Wall -g -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib
-L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib
-L/usr/pkg/lib -o xchat-text  fe-text.o ../common/libxchatmain.a
-L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -lgmodule -lglib -Wl,-E
-Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-netbsd/CORE
-L/usr/pkg/lib
/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-netbsd/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
-L/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-netbsd/CORE -lperl -lm -lcrypt
-L/usr/pkg/lib/python2.0/config -lpython2.0 -lpthread
/usr/pkg/lib/python2.0/config/libpython2.0.a(posixmodule.o): In function
`posix_tmpnam':
posixmodule.o(.text+0x1f52): warning: tmpnam() possibly used unsafely, use
mkstemp() or mkdtemp()
/usr/pkg/lib/python2.0/config/libpython2.0.a(posixmodule.o): In function
`posix_tempnam':
posixmodule.o(.text+0x1ebb): warning: tempnam() possibly used unsafely,
use mkstemp() or mkdtemp()
/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-netbsd/CORE/libperl.so: warning: reference
to compatibility setlocale(); include <locale.h> for correct reference
/usr/pkg/lib/python2.0/config/libpython2.0.a(posixmodule.o): In function
`posix_openpty':
posixmodule.o(.text+0xe03): undefined reference to `openpty'
/usr/pkg/lib/python2.0/config/libpython2.0.a(posixmodule.o): In function
`posix_forkpty':
posixmodule.o(.text+0xe53): undefined reference to `forkpty'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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