The following reply was made to PR pkg/29254; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29254: cyclic depandancy between devel/libtool && libtool-base and  devel/pth
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:26:52 +1100

 On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:08:01PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 
 > From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
 > To: ole.hellqvist@spray.se
 > Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Subject: Re: pkg/29254: cyclic depandancy between devel/libtool && libtool-base and  devel/pth
 > Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:06:48 +0100
 > 
 >  On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:56:00PM +0000, ole.hellqvist@spray.se wrote:
 >  > Downloaded the  pkgsrc.tar.gz today at 14:00, got the error caused by recycled depandancies beetween devel/libtool-base and devel/pth.
 >  
 >  Why do you need pth on 2.0?
 >  2.0 comes with a pthread library; pth is just a replacement library
 >  needed on systems which don't have one.
 
 I think (part of) the point is that this was not detected correctly
 by pkgsrc, and it tried to pull in pth.
 
 grant.