The following reply was made to PR pkg/29470; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier@Sun.COM>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: Eric Boutilier <boutilier@speakeasy.net>
Subject: Re: pkg/29470
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:54:00 -0600 (CST)

 Can I propose that we fix this by creating a patch specifically
 for popt? I haven't run accross any other packages that try to
 link statically to system libraries, so doing a global fix seems
 like overkill to me.
 
 My workaround has been to first do "make patch" in devel/popt,
 manually change Makefile.in as shown below and, then "make install".
 
 Eric
 
 --- Makefile.orig       Wed Mar  2 15:45:52 2005
 +++ Makefile.in Wed Mar  2 15:46:02 2005
 @@ -132,13 +132,13 @@
 
   noinst_PROGRAMS = test1 test2 test3
   test1_SOURCES = test1.c
 -test1_LDFLAGS = -all-static
 +test1_LDFLAGS =
   test1_LDADD = $(lib_LTLIBRARIES) $(LIBINTL)
   test2_SOURCES = test2.c
 -test2_LDFLAGS = -all-static
 +test2_LDFLAGS =
   test2_LDADD = $(lib_LTLIBRARIES) $(LIBINTL)
   test3_SOURCES = test3.c
 -test3_LDFLAGS = -all-static
 +test3_LDFLAGS =
   test3_LDADD = $(lib_LTLIBRARIES) $(LIBINTL)
 
   noinst_SCRIPTS = testit.sh