The following reply was made to PR pkg/37479; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
To: reed@reedmedia.net
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, adam@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/37479 (work directories in qt4-lib pkgconfig pc files)
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 08:36:34 +1300

 On Sunday 09 December 2007 06:09:27 reed@reedmedia.net wrote:
 > From looking at 345 pkgconfig .pc files on different operating
 > systems, only these QT4 pkgconfig files have .la references.
 >
 > As far as I know, pkgconfig files should not reference libtool
 > files. This breaks programs that depend on .pc files but aren't
 > using libtool.
 
 Adding '-e "s:${QTPREFIX}/lib/lib\([A-Za-z3]*\)\.la:-l\1:g"' to the 
 SED in the do-install should fix that.
 
 cheers
 mark