The following reply was made to PR pkg/30607; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/30607: lang/erlang needs --with-ssl to find the 'right'
 openssl
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:57:39 +1000

 sorry I realize my response was a bit terce.
 
 there isn't a direct dependency on the top-level ./configure in the
 package, but one of its subsidiary directories does in fact depend on
 detecting the path of openssl. It detects the base installation on non-
 NetBSD systems (probably on NetBSD too, although I suspect few people
 install openssl from pkgsrc because the base is up-to-date enough)
 
 adding --with-ssl to CONFIGURE_ARGS does seem to be passed down to the
 child directory of this package.
 
 -George