It occurred to me that Luca Sironi wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.current:
> ld: .libs/gconvert.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against
> `_g_charset_get_aliases' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> ld: final link failed: Bad value

That's odd; I *really* thought I send-PR'ed that one about two weeks ago,
but I can't find it back. I did find the diff in order to fix it though; I
must've fouled up somehow, so I re-submitted it. See pkg/33908, which includes
a fix.