> Can you post the contents of work/.buildlink/lib/libpthread.la?  I wrote
> some of that stuff "blind" since I don't have a -current NetBSD system
> on which to test.

Here we go: 

| [konrad@amelie:/usr/pkgsrc/devel/glib/work/.buildlink/lib] ls -l
| total 0
| lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21 Jan 30 03:23 libpthread.a -> /usr/lib/libpthread.a
| -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   0 Jan 30 03:23 libpthread.la
| [konrad@amelie:/usr/pkgsrc/devel/glib/work/.buildlink/lib] 

Cheers,
 Konrad