The following reply was made to PR pkg/33710; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Casey Carter <rockear@hive-mind.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33710: pango conflicts with freetype-lib 
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:51:13 -0700

 >  Do you know what in particular was in your .profile that caused this?
 
 I've solved the mystery. I use ksh93 as a login shell, and these lines were
 in my .profile:
 
 ENV=~/.kshrc
 export ENV
 
 So every subshell pulls in .kshrc, which contains a custom $PATH:
 
 PATH=${HOME}/bin
 PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
 PATH=${PATH}:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin
 PATH=${PATH}:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
 PATH=${PATH}:/bin:/sbin
 PATH=${PATH}:/usr/pkg/xorg/bin
 PATH=${PATH}:/usr/games
 
 This overrides any special considerations the pkgsrc build system makes, and
 things go haywire. In fact this was breaking any package build that relies
 on a USE_TOOLS directive, such as www/firefox.
 
 Removing the two lines from my .profile causes everything to work properly.
 
 Thanks for your courteous assistance!