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

From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: solaris-pkg-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29470
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:52:04 +1100

 On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:59:02PM +0000, Eric Boutilier wrote:
 
 >  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.
 
 good point - I've done this now. thanks!
 
 grant.