The package graphics/tiff has a C++ mode. While building with gcc 3.4.3, I ran 
into a linking problem caused by C applications (e.g., fax2ps) being linked 
against libstdc++ with ld instead of g++.

The problem was fixed with some patches directing libtool to link using $(CXX) 
as the linker:

fax2ps_LINK = $(LIBTOOL) --tag=CXX --mode=link $(CXX) $(AM_CXXFLAGS) 
$(CXXFLAGS) $(AM_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@

in the Makefile.am.

It turned out to be necessary to make this change in a number of other package 
using tiff.

Is there a more universal solution than modifying every affected package?

-- 
John R. Shannon
john@johnrshannon.com
john.r.shannon@saic.com
shannonjr@NetBSD.org