The following reply was made to PR pkg/32041; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Antoine Reilles <Antoine.Reilles@loria.fr>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32041: pkgsrc/chat/irssi fails to build on os x
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:48:04 +0100

 > 
 > checking for pkg-config... /Volumes/local/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/work/.tools/bin/pkg-config
 > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.8.3)
 > checking if we can link dynamic libraries with modules... libtool: link: specify a tag with `--tag'
 > configure: error: error, can't even find .a library
 > *** Error code 1
 you can do:
 cd /chat/irssi
 make extract
 cp /usr/pkg/share/libtool/ltmain.sh work/irssi-8.6/ltmain.sh
 make install
 
 this should work, though there has to be a more clean solution
 
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 antoine