This is a problem that comes up quite a bit. I just had the same problem
trying to compile the CERN http stuff including the http-proxy daemon. I've
seen it in other things as well.

 Is there a change that could be made to the NetBSD libraries that would
avoid this forever, or is it a matter of other software not being put
together correctly?

>Has anyone gotten ghostview to work?  I was able to compile ghostscript
>2.6.2 with little problem (the one catch I remember -- you have to tell it
>where the X libraries are), but ghostview 1.5 runs into problems with the
>definition of sys_errlist being multiply defined (apparently).
>

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