On Saturday 23 June 2007, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Drop the  -Wl,-z,defs.  Its complaining about unresolved symbols
> > in shared libraries that should be unresolved at that stage.
>
> Can you be more precise to which symbols are untentionally
> unresolved? This package was a completely mess linkage wise and I
> fear this will break it again...

Take a look at any recent NetBSD bulk build such as eg.
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/misc/kristerw/pkgstat/i386-4.0/20070612.2204/graphics/ivtools/.broken.html

This was the simplest way to fix that.  I certainly won't dispute that 
the package linkage is a mess.

cheers
mark