The following reply was made to PR pkg/33181; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg@britannica.bec.de
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33181: www/firefox fails to build on -current/amd64
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:00:47 +0200

 On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 12:45:01PM +0000, martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl wrote:
 >         Firefox fails to build, failing with a linker error. See 
 > 
 > http://bigbird.dohd.org:3021/NetBSD/pkgstat/20060325.0310/www/firefox/.broken.html
 
 This is a problem of the inline assembly, which depends on a text
 relocation. This is not supported by the newer binutils anymore. The
 problem is that I don't have enough knowledge of the amd64 calling
 convention to fix it myself. The call has to use the correct GOT
 addressing, when __PIC__ is defined.
 
 Joerg